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Water Colour - Olivetti Studio 44 :
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Hotel Artwork - Olympia SM4 Rendering...at The Study Hotel on Drexel Campus in PA State :
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Pete E. wrote:
Very nice illustration in a somewhat exploded-view format of an Olivetti manual typewriter.
Artist name is noted below the illustration.
Pete, that may be one of the nicest explanation illustrations of how a typewriter works I've seen.
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George,
I found this image a couple of years back. I can imagine Triumph may have had several different types if used in training and/or as shop displays...
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Pete,
Have you read anywhere how long it took for a worker to actually build a typewriter? I have to imagine there was training as well as unique tools but so far the internet is more interested in serving up essentially repeated histories of designs and models, sometimes with sales data. When I find a spring unhooked it takes me a while to re-hook it. I read that one Selectric had 2800 parts. For something mechanical that seems like a lot of pieces to put together in the correct precise order. How long did it take to learn to build any typewriter I wonder? There had to be learning tools.
George
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Hi George,
Sorry I have not. I am in awe to think about the folks, engineers, etc. at these typewriter factories in days-gone-by and their efforts to take a machine from design into prototyping and then into production and have it all documented so the work was repeatable.
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Christopher Stott - Still Life :
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And Art is where you find it....
(Artist unknown.)
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Re: Paintings & Illustrations Of Typewriters...
Well...it is an oil painting and there is a typewriter in the scene...
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