by Richard Polt | Mar 7, 2024 | telegraphic
Thanks to Leicester Museum and Galleries for permission to publish these photos of an extraordinary Imperial portable, made in Leicester. This is a Model T, serial 2N 634 (1940), with a three-row telegrapher’s keyboard. You can click on any photo to see a...
by Richard Polt | Sep 18, 2023 | telegraphic
Bob Freshwater has sent me these interesting photos of a Royal P (ca. 1930) adapted to handle telegraph forms and a ca. 1952 instruction session on the use of the Smith-Corona Typewriter Telegraph 8B. He says that these machines were used by the UK General Post...
by Richard Polt | Feb 20, 2017 | Remington, Smith-Corona, telegraphic
Most typewriter collectors have heard of “mills.” I believe there was a period when the term “mill” was occasionally used as slang to mean any typewriter, but the term was eventually restricted to the world of telegraphy. Before the rise of the...
