{"id":2197,"date":"2003-07-20T12:36:34","date_gmt":"2003-07-20T15:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=522"},"modified":"2010-05-08T23:42:42","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T02:42:42","slug":"typewriters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2003\/07\/20\/typewriters\/","title":{"rendered":"Typewriters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been fascinated with typewriters since the age of 8 (to the lasting damage of my handwriting). Here are two interesting specimens I saw in Europe. This one used to belong to the German writer Hermann Hesse; it&#8217;s a &#8220;Smith Premier No.1&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/eu\/IMGP0331.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a letter to a friend, Hesse explained that this typewriter&#8217;s best feature was that it had separate key banks for lower-case (in white) and upper-case (in black). Apparently Hesse thought that pressing the shift key distracted his thought processes.<\/p>\n<p>This even older model was in a shop&#8217;s window in the alpine town of F\u00fcssen:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/eu\/IMGP0365.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Apparently you had to select the appropriate character on the semicircular dial and then press the single large key in front to print it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been fascinated with typewriters since the age of 8 (to the lasting damage of my handwriting). Here are two interesting specimens I saw in Europe. This one used to belong to the German writer Hermann Hesse; it&#8217;s a &#8220;Smith Premier No.1&#8221;: In a letter to a friend, Hesse explained that this typewriter&#8217;s best feature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-photo"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-zr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}