The History and Development of Typewriters by Tilghman Richards G (7 results)

Staplebound Paperback. Condition: Good. Top front cover has file location, comes from a former anthropologist library. Binding solid, pages crisp and clean, no other markings found. Covers bright with light scuffs and dents. Extremities lightly bumped with minimal tip wear.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Second Edition Second Impression. Near fine booklet in light card covers. Internally fine and free of inscriptions; very well illustrated;49pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. ## The HISTORY and DEVELOPMENT of TYPEWRITERS by G Tilghman Richards 1948 ## ## THIS BOOK: Classified FINE: This Book is the 1948 edition. Originally published in 1948. ## This book is in fine condition: some signs of storage colouring but is not ripped or torn. Plain beige cover with black text, loads of pictures and drawings of typewriters Wonderful typewriter history book .## ## INTRODUCTION: TODAY (in1948), the typewriter plays such an important part in both the business activities and the private correspondence of the whole world that there is no need to enlarge on its influence, which is apparent to all engaged in correspondence, book-keeping, invoicing, billing and listing, transcription of shorthand and legal documents, newspaper reporting, preparation of matter for lithographic reproduction, and many other fields of activity. On the other hand, we are today so familiar with the part taken by women in commercial life that one may overlook the very important part played by the typewriter in their so-called " emancipation." It opened up a new field for female employment. During the last fifty years, it has provided an occupation and living for millions of women, the figure being difficult to compute, but now well over half a million in Great Britain alone. The great new field of employment has occasioned the union of the twin accomplishments of shorthand writing and efficient high-speed typewriter operation, the names of Isaac Pitman and C. L. Sholes standing out as those of the two great pioneers in this connection. Today, acquiring skills in both arts is almost an essential qualification for high-class secretarial employment. ## ## This Handbook of the National Collection of Typewriters illustrates in considerable detail how the evolution of the modern machine has come about from the early trials and struggles of many inventors. In the early days, the urge to provide writing machines for blind persons was one of the main factors in experimental development. This desire seems particularly active in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth. Centuries, when some twenty-three different methods of making embossed printing were in existence, the best known were those devised by Lucas, Frere, Moon, and Braille. The latter published his system in 1829 and developed it further in 1834. It was offcially recognised in Paris in 1854.## ### INTERNATIONAL BUYERS: Please Note FREE SHIPPING IS UK ONLY. Please get in touch with me for a shipping quotation. ###. No Author signature.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Good paperback, bumped/creased with shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Ex-library book, usual markings. Well read with some wear but still very useable. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Softcover. Condition: Fair. 1964. A used, ex-library copy, with external creasing and thumb-marking around the edges and corners, particularly the spine, from previous handling and use. Some stickers and stamps and residue inside the covers from previous library usage, but the majority of the contents are otherwise well-presented with no major creases or signs of wear. Why on Amazon do most sellers not describe their actual book? Buy with confidence and support a genuine Independent Bricks & Mortar Real Bookshop. We are Maynard & Bradley CAMBO & PBFA(now lapsed) members here in Leicester City Centre. Size: 140 x 220 mm. 49. Item Type: Book. Reup Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Engineering, Industrial, Trade; Britain/UK; 1960s; Inventory No: 36618.

kart. Condition: Gut. en, 2nd. impr. 48 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 24 cm 2nd. impr. 1975. Revised edition of: Handbook of the collection illustrating typewriters, London 1938. Brochure, in English language. Edges slightly rubbed, page edges slightly darkened, otherwise in good condition. Private owenership. + + + Broschiert, klammergeheftet. Einband tls. leicht berieben und part. etwas knickspurig, Schnitt dezent nachgedunkelt, sonst sauber und gepflegt. Keine Besitzvermerke. 9780112902225 Werktäglicher Versand. Jede Lieferung m. ordentl. Rechnung und ausgew. MwSt. Der Versand erfolgt als Büchersendung / Einschreiben mit der Deutschen Post bzw. als Päckchen / Paket mit DHL. Die Lieferzeit ist abhängig von der Versandart und beträgt innerhalb Deutschlands 3-5 Tage, in der EU 5 - 12 Tage. KEIN Versand an Packstationen. Körperschaften und juristische Personen werden auf Wunsch per offener Rechnung beliefert. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 220.