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3 comments to "Virtual Typewriter Museum: Hansen Writing Ball."
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aware
July 2nd, 2007 at
7:47 pm
Thanks for sharing this post. Here’s an expanded one based on it.
Deaf “Text Pager” from the Year 1865 “Your pager is so useful for jotting notes quickly, and sharing fast text communication with others. Let’s go back to 1865 and see how some deaf people could do it long ago. The first manual typewriter in the world came about because of Deaf students at a residential school in Copenhagen in the late 1800s. Pictures! History! Intrigue!” [...] How did people type on it? [...] Hansen’s Role in Deaf Education [...]“
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aware
July 2nd, 2007 at
7:47 pm
also? i think they should call this the hedgehog (typing) machine.

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PBB
October 26th, 2007 at
12:21 pm
Rasmus Malling-Hansen was an inventor, educator, scientist, pastor, and linguist. The history of his writing ball and other related inventions can be found on the web site of the Rasmus Malling-Hansen Society, at http://www.malling-hansen.org. The web site includes a thorough biography, many photographs, and numerous pages devoted to his many different accomplishments and interests.
The next time you are in Copenhagen, please visit the Royal School for the Deaf where Malling-Hansen was the principal. There is a commemorative monument in the school courtyard. If you can’t make it to Denmark, feel free to visit the school in a virtual way through the Society’s web site and/or the School’s own website, which is http://www.skolenpaakastelsvej.kk.dk.
Keep your thinking cap on!
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