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Remember Typewriters?

Richard Polt, a philosophy professor at Xavier University, celebrates a (nearly) obsolete technology at his “Classic Typewriter Page.” His site features a brief history of typewriters, facts about the “little charmers” known as Remington portables, and many other tidbits of information concerning this handy writing device. Go to: http://xavier.xu.edu/~polt/typewriters.html

From the June 25, 1932, issue

ARTIFICIAL LIGHTNING FLASHED AT 10 MILLION VOLTS The most powerful manmade lightning is flashing across the cover of this week’s Science News Letter from new equipment in the Pittsfield laboratories of the General Electric Co., which has twice the capacity of any preceding apparatus of its kind. This is a discharge through a 15-foot space […]

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