Vari-Typer
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Vari-Typer is the brand name of a variable-spacing typewriter used between the 1930s and the early 1980s in printing, as well as for the production of office documents of typographic quality.
Hammond 1 typewriter, 1885
Typewriter
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A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for typing characters. Typically, a typewriter has an array of keys, and each one causes a different single character to be produced on paper
Mechanical typewriters, such as this 1930s Underwood, were long-time standards in government agencies, newsrooms, and offices.
Peter Mitterhofer's typewriter prototype (1864)
Hansen Writing Ball was the first typewriter manufactured commercially (1870).
Prototype of the first commercially successful typewriter, the Sholes and Glidden (1873) – with the first QWERTY keyboard