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From Socrates to Palmer Method to typewriters to iPods
From today's Miami Herald...although I believe I read parts of this
elsewhere this week...a short opinion piece on the changing history of technology as it relates to the transmission of knowledge. http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald...on/9755858.htm Regards, Norman Haase His Nibs.com www.hisnibs.com |
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Norman Haase wrote:
From today's Miami Herald...although I believe I read parts of this elsewhere this week...a short opinion piece on the changing history of technology as it relates to the transmission of knowledge. http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald...on/9755858.htm I don't, in any way, miss my manual typewritter. -- macaddicted Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant! |
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In the article the writer says: /and out with them went those distinctive ''tip fill'' two-ounce bottles of Waterman's ink that are now collectible antiques sold on eBay./ The only bottles like that I know of are Sheaffer not Waterman. Am I wrong? Did Waterman have bottles with the extra little lip? .....Fred Norman Haase wrote: From today's Miami Herald...although I believe I read parts of this elsewhere this week...a short opinion piece on the changing history of technology as it relates to the transmission of knowledge. http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald...on/9755858.htm Regards, Norman Haase His Nibs.com www.hisnibs.com |
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"Fred Martin" wrote: | In the article the writer says: | /and out with them went those distinctive ''tip fill'' two-ounce bottles | of Waterman's ink | that are now collectible antiques sold on eBay./ | The only bottles like that I know of are Sheaffer not Waterman. Am I | wrong? Did Waterman | have bottles with the extra little lip? Look at the Waterman bottle shape. As ink gets low in the bottle, you tip it over on any one of its faceted sides, and VOILA--instant well! john cline ii, always amazed at how long it takes some to find this! |
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