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With technology changing at a lightening-fast pace, sometimes you just need to slow down and appreciate the days when the typewriter Gramps used still did the job it was meant for fifty years later.

Step out off the information superhighway for a few moments and catch your breath with A Visual Compendium of Typewriters, from Pop Chart Lab.

A throwback to the original word processor, this chart features over 60 beautiful hand-illustrations of some of the greatest typewriters from antiquity to recent history. Underscoring over 100 years of essential models from the first Hammond in 1870 to the Remington Rands and Smith Coronas of the 20th century, these marvelous contraptions are arrayed in ribbons of compositional innovation.

Ah, the soothing rhythm of typewriter keys…

Full story at Pop Chart Lab via Laughing Squid.

Chapters of tech history.