TOPWRITERnumber 1, march 2013

old versus new

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Olivetti letteraOlivetti is an Italian manufacturer of computers, tablets, printers and other business products such as calculators and fax machines. Headquartered in Ivrea, province of Turin, the company has been part of the Telecom Italia Group since 2003.

Olivetti lettera22 Olivetti lettera25This typewriter is sized about 27x37x8 cm (with the carriage return lever making it quite portable at least for the time’s stand-ards, even though its 4 kg (8.8 lb) weight may limit portability.

Lettera 25(better known as College). The typewriter is sized about 34x35x10 cm, making it port-able at least for the time’s standards. even though its 5.9 kg weight may limit portability.

Olivetti lettera32Olivetti lettera 32 is sized about 27x37x8 cm (with the carriage return lever making it quite portable at least for the time’s stand-ards, even though its 9.2 may limit their portability.

Olivetti lettera33 Olivetti lettera82 Olivetti lettera90This typewriter is sized about 27x37x8 cm (with the carriage return lever making it quite portable at least for the time’s stand-ards, even though its 4 kg (8.8 lb) weight may limit portability.

Lettera 34 (better known as College). The typewriter is sized about 34x35x10 cm, making it port-able at least for the time’s standards. even though its 5.9 kg weight may limit portability.

Olivetti lettera 40 is sized about 27x37x8 cm (with the carriage return lever making it quite portable at least for the time’s stand-ards, even though its 9.2 may limit their portability.

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Olivetti lettera32

A worldwide favorite of students, its also the per-fect portable for everyone from poets to PTA sec-retaries, as advertised in one of the promotional ads. Lettera 32 offers the combination of value and features with the feel of a full-size machine. Lettera 32 is sized about 27x34x10 cm (with the carriage return lever making it quite portable at least for the time’s standards, even though its 9 kg (10.3 lb) weight may limit portability.

Christopher sholesChristopher Latham Sholes was born on February 14, 1819 and it was he who invented the first typewriter that really work satisfactorily and who de-veloped the keyboard that we know today as QWERTY.

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Typewriters had been in-vented as early as 1714 by Henry Mill and rein-vented in various forms throughout the 1800s. It was to be Sholes, how-ever, who invented the first one to be commer-cially successful. Sholes had moved to Milwau-kee and became the ed-itor of a newspaper.

Following a strike by compositors at his print-ing press, he tried build-ing a machine for type-setting, but this was a failure and he quickly abandoned the idea. He arrived at the typewrit-er through a different route. His initial goal was to create a machine to number pages of a

book, tickets, and so on. He began work on this at Kleinsteubers machine shop in Mil-waukee, together with a fellow printer Samuel W. Soule, and they pat-ented a numbering ma-chine on November 13,

Smith coronaSmith Corona is a US manufacturer of thermal labels, direct thermal labels, and thermal ribbons used in warehouses for primarily barcode labels. Once a large U.S. typewriter and mechanical calculator manufacturer, it expanded aggressively during the 1960s.

Smith corona 3 Smith corona 4Based on the Stand-ard Folding Model of 1906, the No.3 was refined in this even lighter and more compact machine made mostly from aluminum. The No. 3 has three banks of keys carriage shift.

The Corona 4 burst onto the market in 1924 as Corona’s first 4-row keyboard portable that fit into a case without fold-ing the carriage. This model was tremen-dously popular. Coron portable had respons.

Smith corona 5A classic! The decade 1930s was particular of significance to L.C. Smith & Corona Type-writers, Inc. Emerg-ing from the depths of the Depression, the company launched a line of new portables: Standard.

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Smith corona super G

The line was best known for its introduction of Floating Shift a superior shift mechanism that lowers the type bar basket instead of the car-riage when typing capitals. The Sterling/Silent model had a handsome classic design with the color choice of electric orange in addition to the black glossy finish.