History of writing

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!

photo by Martin Howard – more about The Martin Howard Collection via www.antiquetypewriters.com or via www.flickr.com/photos/32435222@N03/
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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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also related:
https://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/convert-paper-writing/
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