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A store in Florence was featuring these today. Unfortunately potato camera phone... but still..

Wow, I like the round "ergo" one and the red one. Thanks for sharing.

Very cool! I like the same ones Seebart liked. Thanks for sharing.

There are a few big typewriter collectors in Italy. One guy had a wonderful website (which I cannot remember). I wonder if these are part of his collection.

vivalarevolución wrote: One guy had a wonderful website (which I cannot remember). I wonder if these are part of his collection.

This one? http://www.scrittura-meccanica.it/colle ... rivere.php

Nice collection.

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That guy is prepared for a nuclear apocalypse!
These typewriters are actually super impressive and beautiful, thanks for sharing

The creativity that went into typewriters in the early 1900s was astonishing. Thanks for sharing!

There's a superb collection in the Heinz Nixdorf Museum in Paderborn, I think Heinz Nixdorf began collecting typewriters in his lifetime already. If anyone visits Paderborn for whatever reason, by all means visit this museum, it's truely unique.

http://www.hnf.de/en/museum/5/schreibma ... ndard.html

snuci wrote:

vivalarevolución wrote: One guy had a wonderful website (which I cannot remember). I wonder if these are part of his collection.

This one? http://www.scrittura-meccanica.it/colle ... rivere.php

Nice collection.

That us an impressive collection.

Not sure. I think it was something like typewriterstory or somethumg like that. I wish that I could remember his name. I remember his website had more reviews and blog posts and was less of a photo collection. His wife was also was quite attractive.

Halvar wrote: The creativity that went into typewriters in the early 1900s was astonishing. Thanks for sharing!

There's a superb collection in the Heinz Nixdorf Museum in Paderborn, I think Heinz Nixdorf began collecting typewriters in his lifetime already. If anyone visits Paderborn for whatever reason, by all means visit this museum, it's truely unique.

http://www.hnf.de/en/museum/5/schreibma ... ndard.html

Yea, the brainpower, engineering, and design that went into typewriters during their heyday was quite amazing. Each factory employed thousands of people at peak production. Imagine all the brainpower currently in the computer and software industries in the typewriter industry. That's how you get these machines so well designed that they work perfectly fine decades later.