The Albus was an Austrian machine, manufactured under license from the Standard Typewriter Company. Wrote Typewriter Topics in 1912, “The ‘Albus’ has already shown that it is certainly ‘on the job’ everywhere and anywhere, on earth or in the air; the ‘Albus’ is said to be the first typewriting machine which has been used with great success on an aeroplane.” Certainly one could type while flying, but how practically?
Typewriter Topics, January 1912 –
Portable typewriters did, however, prove quite durable. From Popular Mechanics (July 1920) –
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Wow, cool post! This goes along with some air-travel/postal-themed vintage graphics I have been playing with from The Graphics Fairy, to make fun snail mail.
I notice the Albus has no paper in it. That paper would be whipping around in the wind, in an open plane like that!
Back when I was a reporter, I flew in an open-air plane, a World-War II trainer that afforded some protection from the elements. How one could type on a Wright flyer, I do not know. (Good catch on the paperless machine!)