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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: A Typewriter Inventor Was Trying To Help A Blind Friend Send Letters
Description: For National Typewriter Day, some of the stories that helped bring this device to life, including a guy in Italy who was trying to help a blind countess write letters. Plus: a giant typewriter in San Francisco about a century ago? It happened.Â
Typewriters Were Originally Created To Help The Blind (Dictionary.com)
a curious story of the 14 ton Underwood Master Typewriter… (Red Letter Day zine)
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