Picture credits

2: Courtesy William Allen ‘William Allen Word & Image’ / By kind permission of the Prinknash Trustees

7–9: Author’s collection

10–11: All work and photograph by Catherine Sargeant

12–13: Author’s collection

14–15: Ruth Broadbent

17: © Jantze Tullett

19: © Estate of Paul De Vree, Antwerp, © image: M HKA

21: From Pitman’s Typewriter Manual, 1893

22: From The Phonetic Journal, Pitman’s, 1898

23: From The History of the Typewriter by George Mares, Guilbert Pitman, UK, 1909

24: © Estate of Paul De Vree, Antwerp, © image: M HKA

25: Bauhaus-Archiv / © DACS 2013

26–27: © 2013 Austrian Frederick & Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation, Vienna

28–29: Collection of Groninger Museum, photograph Marten de Leeuw / Estate of H.N. Werkman

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