The Writing Ball

In 1865 a very strange-looking typewriter was developed by Rasmus Malling-Hansen, known as 'The Writing Ball'. "Not only was it efficient, but also strangely elegant, even beautiful: just look at it - a brass half-sphere covered with keys above a cylinder that held the paper. It was finely made, unlike some of the unsuccessful machines before, looking more like a gentleman's watch than a piece of office equipment"



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