Tuesday, 4 December 2012

UK's Last Typewritter

The company 'Brothers' have produced the UK's last ever typewriter, Brother said it had stopped making typewriters in the UK because demand had fallen sharply in this country and that it still had significant sales in the US but its factory in the Far East produces enough typewriters to serve this market. 
When I first heard this news I think I was more surprised that people still used typewriters as they have never been commonly used in my generation and have become a piece of dying technology. However before all our modern technology typewriters were essential to businesses and were widely regarded as being instrumental in helping many women to enter paid work for the first time.
The last typewriter to be built in the UK was produced at a north Wales factory and has been donated to London's Science Museum who said the piece represented the end of a technology which had been "important to so many lives"

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