©Leon Cmielewski
...typing for peace, democracy, and the glory of the Typosphere
Tuesday, 8 March 2011
Monday, 7 March 2011
Oil bodkin
Here's an oil can which arrived in the lid of a Corona 4. The oil in it has a fragrant eucalyptus scent. Over-oiling was the curse of many a typewriter. It congeals to a sticky mess over the decades. The flat-ended applicator bodkin is meant to administer the smallest of drops. Looks like a mini-dipstick.
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| Length: 90mm |
Sunday, 6 March 2011
Home keys
Early 20th century reference card for the would-be typist. I'm still a two fingers and a thumb luddite.
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©Pitman's |
Saturday, 5 March 2011
Naming the parts
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| © 1919 Underwood Typewriter Company Inc, NY |
Double page spread in the back of my user manual for an Underwood three-bank portable.
Click image to supersize.
Click image to supersize.
Margin bells ring in Mumbai
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| ©AFP |
Phil Hazlewood writes: MUMBAI, Wednesday 23 February 2011 - Purushottan H. Sakhare perches on a wall by a Mumbai pavement, slips a sheet of green paper behind the roller of his battered typewriter and winds it into position with two deft flicks of the wrist.
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