“Imagine that everything you are typing is being read by the person you are applying to for your first job. ... Imagine that it’s all going to be seen by your parents and your grandparents and your grandchildren as well.”
Sir Tim Berners-Lee (source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7299875.stm)
A beautiful place to be! See some photos here.
November mood? See here.
Alternatively, visit the garden, and visit it again.
A new site for typewriter enthousiasts: www.typewriters.ch just started in November 2009.
OLIVER PORTABLE TYPEWRITER
model: ?
manufacturer: ?
serial number: 104896
year of production: ? (probably 1930s)
keyboard: French
The Oliver typewriter is most commonly associatiated with the popular Oliver standard typewriter, which stands out by its "winged" shape (see the Wikipedia entry for more information on the Oliver Typewriter Company). The history of Oliver portable typewriters is somewhat complicated: the British Oliver Typewriters Ltd.'s portable typewriters were duplicated by several other firms (1). According to information available at Will Davis' website (1), the machine featured here would fall "into the family loosely known as the "SIM / MAS" group of portables, made in Italy and which carried a wide variety of names and models over a number of years."
Special features:
1. The serial number 104896 is not a mechanical engraving as usually, or if it is, it still looks very much like engraved by hand.
2. There is an extra "FR" currency key for French francs. The ribbon selector in the colours green - white - red might reflect the Italian flag, where the typewriter was probably produced. Incidental gimmick: can you see the keyboard's "smiley"?
(1) Will Davis, OLIVER portables and relatives, http://www.geocities.com/wbd641/oliver.html (visited 2009-08-11)
Triumph Klein-Schreibmaschine "Modell 1" oder "Klein-Triumph"
Triumph portable typewriter. More photos here.
Modell: Modell 1 oder Klein-Triumph
Hersteller: Triumph-Werke Nürnberg AG
Seriennummer: 314636
Herstellungsjahr: unklar. Das Modell wurde ab 1928 hergestellt. (1)
Tastatur: Schweizer Tastatur
als Geschenk erhalten in Courtedoux im August 2009.
Ab 1928 stellten die Triumph-Werke ihre erste Klein-Schreibmaschine her. Sie war von eigenen Mitarbeitern konstruiert worden und erhielt die Bezeichnung "Modell 1" oder "Klein-Triumph" (1, S.23). Wir sehen sie auf diesem Werbeplakat:
source: von Zezschwitz Kunst und Design
Fussnoten:
(1) Leonhard Dingwerth, Die Geschichte der Deutschen Schreibmaschinenfabriken- Band 1: große und mittlere Hersteller, BoD – Books on Demand, 2008 (ISBN 3921913381, 9783921913383).
