Drawing on a selection of non-keyboard ‘index’ typewriters, this exhibition explores how input mechanisms and alphabetic arrangements were devised and contested continually in the process of popularising typewrites as personal objects. The display particularly looks at how the letters of the alphabe Reading Thomas S. Mullaney’s The Chinese Typewriter I’m struck by the variety of … Continue reading One letter at a time: index typewriters and the alphabetic interface — Contextual Alternate