Image: Sarah Pinault
Before the iPad, before the netbook, before the personal desktop computer, there was a time in which simple mechanical parts and push button technology aided us in producing the written word: I give you the typewriter.
In fact, this may be the last typewriter, or at least the last manual typewriter. In April the last typewriter factory in the world, Godrej and Boyce, closed its production line after 60 years, with 500 pieces remaining. Having sustained itself in recent years on the diminishing Indian and Arabic markets, there was no longer a sustainable business in typewriters.
[Read the rest of Sarah Pinault’s ode to the manual typewriter on GeekMom!]
