DIGITAL RESTAURANT GALLERY

Since more than 5,000 years we can watch mankind writing, trying to multiply experiences. Actually we have an unique technical explosion, but we still should feel deep respect for the first steps of our ancestors. I adore Martin Howard for his energy, to collect antique typewriters!

featured: an Edelmann typewriter – 1897, Wernicke, Edelmann & Co., Germany: with permission of Martin Howard, antiquetypewriters.com
frizztext-comment: Once I had a project called “DIGITAL RESTAURANT GALLERY” – the pictures (for example a typewriter) could be seen in a restaurant – not for real but as a photoshop fake: the chance of that project: we could imagine for one moment, how the effect would be, if a restaurant would kindly join my idea to focus on special messages …
– more about my restaurant gallery via http://www.flickr.com/photos/frizztext/sets/72157608616414361/with/3117804062/
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– more about The Martin Howard Collection via www.antiquetypewriters.com or via www.flickr.com/photos/32435222@N03/

related:
1 – 1889 Victory
https://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/history-of-writing/
2 – 1881 Hammond 1
https://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2012/05/18/antique-typewriter-1881/
3 – 1905 Mignon 2
https://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/mignon-2-typewriter-1905/
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Martin Howard sent one of his articles as a PDF-file to me:
https://flickrcomments.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/collecting_the_worlds_first_typewriters.pdf
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