No Other Typewriter Can Do This

By Queuebot in Gadgets, Hacks & Mods on Mar 16, 2009 at 2:17 pm

Modern Mechanix blog spotted this in a copy of Ye Olde (1918!) National Geographic Magazine: an advertisement for a typewriter with variable fonts.

No Other Typewriter Can Do This—

Change instantly from

Miniature Roman to Large Gothic.
Medium Roman to Italics.
Vertical Script to CLARENDON.
English to Russian.
TURKISH TO PUNJABI.

This can be done by “Just Turning the Knob” on the Multiplex Hammond “Writing Machine”

Link

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Minnesotastan.

Tags: font, typewriter

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Oomi
Mar 16th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Albeit an ancient device, I would love to own one.
gtron
Mar 16th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
quite telling that the original ad does what the text says, and on this page in our 2009 technological brilliance, the text typed on this page looked boring and did not do what the 1918 machine offered.
i too would like to even see one.
snichael
Mar 16th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
Hmmmm, Memo-Gate Alert: somebody dust this machine for fingerprints to see if Dan Rather’s or Mary Mapes’s are on it!
Kalel
Mar 16th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
Neatorama: Font of the Offkey.
Edward
Mar 16th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
Predecessor of the IBM typewriter and its type ball. Was and always will be the best.
Vagabond
Mar 17th, 2009 at 1:08 am
This WAS a long time ago. Now, there IS no 637 E. 69th St in Manhattan, which is New York, NY. That address is in the middle of the East River.
Skipweasel
Mar 17th, 2009 at 3:37 am
Thankfully, no Comic Sans.
nihil
Mar 17th, 2009 at 9:00 am
I want one! I have a Underwood Portable from the 20′s but the carriage return needs some work. This thing is awesome. The fact that this one is only eleven pounds is also awesome. My “portable” weighs a ton.
Starving Artist
Mar 17th, 2009 at 9:03 am
Wow, only 11 pounds!
Maybelle
Mar 17th, 2009 at 11:18 am
What, no Comic Sans?

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