by Richard Polt | Jul 20, 2020 | Burroughs, Cold Hard Type, Sholes Visible, Underwood
I don’t have a well-developed topic for a post, but thought I would publish a few notes on my recent activities. I continue to bike around Cincinnati in the early morning, before it gets too hot. Here’s a view from Mt. Storm Park just after sunrise today....
by Richard Polt | Aug 6, 2013 | Sholes Visible
About 11 months ago I published this photo from Peter Weil’s collection: I’ll repeat Peter’s analysis of the photo: Sholes Visible Typewriter #2 (1901); in the office of the shipping department of the W.R. McTurk Coal Company in the borough of...
by Richard Polt | Oct 6, 2012 | Sholes Visible
Before and after (click to enlarge):
by Richard Polt | Sep 30, 2012 | Sholes Visible
Some of the remaining gaps and flaws in my Sholes Visible are getting fixed, with a little help from my friends. No more missing spacebar! My friend Peter Weil gave me a spacebar from a Remington 7, around the same age as this Sholes. Even the little wood screws in...
by Richard Polt | Sep 7, 2012 | Sholes Visible, Spitzfaden's
When you’re restoring a typewriter it seems that there’s always another little detail to be fixed. Every detail is both a frustrating delay in getting the typewriter ready and (potentially) a satisfying little experience in problem solving. Here are five...
by Richard Polt | Sep 5, 2012 | Sholes Visible
So did anyone actually buy and use this strange invention, the Sholes visible typewriter, a century ago? We have ads from dates such as 1901 and 1905, but of much greater interest is this 1910 photo of a Sholes Visible in its original habitat. For all I know, this...
