Sep 23, 2024
Western Hemisphere Outline Maps.
seen from United States
seen from Sweden
seen from Venezuela
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Türkiye
seen from China
seen from United States
seen from Sweden
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Japan
seen from United States
seen from Japan
seen from Japan
seen from Japan
seen from United States
Western Hemisphere Outline Maps.
Tech
The curious question of when one technology gets displaced in widest use. Today it's a scanning, I guess.
Yeoman 3/c Bruce Hopping faced a court martial for printing up 100 copies of a handbill suggesting his fellow sailors write their congressman complaining about the substandard food they were served.
(George Skadding. 1951)
Saturday Soliloquy: No Particular Place to Go
Do your fingers ever get all twisted when you type? Aren’t you thankful for word processing programs that are SO easy to correct? I’m old. I remember learning to type on big, clunky typewriters with the handle that you tossed to return the carriage for the next line. I remember typing erasers–little brush on one end, eraser on the other, on what looked like a misguided pencil. And the erasers…
View On WordPress
1942 A.B. Dick. Mimeograph Machine ad.
Drawing by Norman Price
Mimeography - for the thoroughly modern office.
“Cheque Frauds Charged To Men,” Toronto Globe. June 23, 1931. Page 13. ---- M. B. Hefferman, and George O. Lang Are Arrested ---- Arrested yesterday in Walkerton, M. B. Hefferman will be brought here today by Detective Alexander on a warrant charging him with obtaining a mimeograph machine valued at $180 by fraud from the Stephen Sales Company, 94 Adelaide Street West. The machine was bought on May 14 and Heffferman is alleged to have tendered a cheque for which, police said, he had no funds to his credit in the bank.
George O. Lang, Victoria Street, was arrested last night by Constable Munro (549) on a warrant charging him with obtaining $25 by fraud from the Bank of Montreal, Bloor and Lansdowne branch. Lang is alleged to have cashed a cheque for which there were no funds in the account the cheque was drawn on.
Detectives Storm and Sullivan arrested Harold Gilkinson, a collector, living at 28 Langley Avenue, on a charge of stealing $50 he is alleged to have collected for Bert Humphrey, 583 Church Street.
Fullerton College Library: Part of the General Office Training Program was training in the use of a mimeograph machine, the precursor to the photocopy machine. Office practice also included instruction in the operation of the varitype, electromatic typewriter, addressograph, checkwriter, and Multilith Duplicator.
Source: http://libraryfchistory.fullcoll.edu/photos.php?image_id=416