Of Cats and Mice

It is a well-known fact that cats just love typewriters. One irritating factor, however, keeps puzzling typewriter and computer science. As my friend Perfesser Bear so aptly put it: "Most American-sold typewriters never came with their own cat; you had to supply your own. I have no idea why they replaced it with the mouse after the switch to computers."
Any suggestions?

 

The Fabulous Four

The Wheel Reinvented

(you can skip the ad) / Apple (2010) v. Simplex Typewriter (1910)

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

Impressions

Once again, the generations meet...

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Busy Bees

Dial Typewriter and two times Apex, the busy bee from Western Germany. If you feel like, you can play them all at the same time.

 


See Robert's post for technical details, and here for some more on the Dial Typewriter.


ps: I realized my Latin has become a bit rusty, "apis" would be the bee, of course, however, I found it a fitting title for this post. 

Typewriter brand logos Part 3 - from Remington to Voss

While Robert is speaking in Australia, I decorate this great exhibition from far and continue with the selection of typewriter logos. Today we start with Remington and go all the way up to Voss.

Remington portable 1 (1922)

Rheinmetall (1945/46)

Rover 2000

Royal (1959)

Ruf (1937)

S.I.M.

Ideal (1936)

Seidel & Naumann, Ideal (1930)

Seidel & Naumann, Erika 5

Senta

Stoewer-Elite (1913)

Stower portable (1926-30)

Stoewer Record (1923)

Swissa junior 4

Swissa piccola

The Noiseless Typewriter Mod. 4

Tom Thumb

Torpedo Mod. 5

Underwood (1924)

Urania Piccola ()

Voss Privat

Voss

Voss (1949)

Voss (1960)

Typewriter brand logos Part 2 - from Hermes to Perkeo

Here we go again, taking off with the Hermes 2000:

Hermes 2000 (1948)

Hermes Baby (1935)

Hermes, early 1970s

Hermes Media (1946)

Hermes No. 2 (1923)

Hermes No. 2 (from a letter written in 1932)

Japy P68

Japy V (1931)

Continental (1921)

Mercedes Elektra 

Monarch

Oliver Courier (1956)

Oliver portable (1930s)

Olivetti Ico (1936)

Olivetti (1939)

Olympia 8

Orga Privat (1927)

"paillard", on Hermes 2000 (1948)

Patria (CH, 1945 - 1950)

Patria (CH, ca. 1936)

Perkeo (ca. 1920s)

Perkeo (ca. 1920s)

Urania (1933)