The “coffee mill” typewriter and the “Danish writing globe”

Dispensing with the actual names of the machines and propagating the myth that Henry Mill designed a typewriter for the blind, the following offers a curious account of the origins of the typewriter. The “coffee mill” was likely an index typewriter (Burt’s typographer?), and the “Danish writing globe” was, of course, the Hansen Writing Ball.

The Evening Herald (Fall River, Massachusetts), July 26, 1900 –

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