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Typewriting causes mild insanity!

by on April 26, 2023

Claiming the human eye was never meant to focus and re-focus so frequently — some 47 million times while typing for 5 hours, according to the claim — a doctor argued that female typists might experience “mild insanity.”

The Nebraska State Journal (Lincoln, Nebraska), February 07, 1892 –

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Also at Type-Writer.org:

  1. Bill to prohibit women from typing (1911) The Phonographic World and Commercial School Review (New York), April 1911 – Rep. George W. Shultz also introduced a bill to ban women from driving...
  2. Two plucky women stenographers (1888) Not only did women take jobs typing, but many purchased their own machines to enter the field. Cosmopolitan Shorthander (Toronto), January 1888 – © 2022...
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