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Genesis of the “Golfball” Selectric
AUGUST 12 GENESIS OF THE GOLFBALL 100 Years of Influences on the Selectric 1856 to 1956 Whenever I give a typewriter presen...
In its history of the creation of the golfballed Selectric, IBM passingly acknowledges the influence of the truly revolutionary Blickensderfer, the classic styling lines of Olivetti(see http://oztypewriter.blogspot.com/2011/05/100-years-of-olivetti-typewriters_04.html) and its need to buy the design patent for Louis Marx ’s 1940s toy typewriter. In filing his application, Beattie referred to many earlier inventions, starting with some astonishing typewriter designs from a Charles Hire Perry(born Vermont, June 25, 1844), a doctor in Oneida, New York. Other earlier typewriter designs to which Beattie referred were by the noted Freeport, Illinois, inventor, manufacturer and banker Daniel Carroll Stover(1839-1908, below) and London-based Scottish politician James Dundas White(1866-1951), as well as another quite remarkable machine, this one from Lithuanian-born Saul Aronson of New York.
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