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Writers and typewriters

Writers and typewriters
2 March 2018
Typewriters in the modern world have become the property of the past, but still firmly associated with writers and inspire the creation of masterpieces.

In a quiet room there was a cheerful knock the keys of a typewriter. The writer in thoughtfulness runs his fingers in mechanical letters, and on the white sheet of paper the words of the future text form. This process, uniting a person, machine and words, is simultaneously magical and responsible, because the typed cannot be edited or deleted, as on modern computers. The writing remains on paper, even if the sheet is crumpled, torn, discarded or burned.

The birthday of the typewriter is celebrated on March 1. On this day in 1873, was developed the first prototype of typewriter by company Remington & Sons. Of course, there were different options for writing tools before, but it was Remington who developed a convenient tool for work that quickly gained popularity. Many writers immediately became interested in the novelty, and Mark Twain even bought Remington No. 1, without waiting it entered the mass market. It was on this world's first typewriter that Tom Sawyer was written. The great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy gave preference to the same firm. Such masterpieces as Anna Karenina and War and Peace were written on the typewriter Remington understroke.

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Another popular type of typewriter was Corona, which developed a small folding machine. It could easily be carried in a special suitcase by travelers, field researchers, journalists. Not surprisingly, the model Corona 3 was preferred by Ernest Hemingway, known for his adventures and an active lifestyle. Also great British writers Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie worked with these machines.

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Today, typewriters are an attribute of the past, part of the history of the last century. The last in the world plant for the production of typewriters, owned by the Indian company Godrej and Boyce, was closed in 2011. Although after this, in November 2012, the Brother factory produced a typewriter called "the last one produced in the UK". The machine was donated to the London Science Museum.

A series of scarves "Typewriters and writers" (Gray, Lilac, Yellow) inspired by this integral part of the image of the writer XIX and XX century. And even today, typewriters have become a thing of the past, they still inspire great masterpieces.

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