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03.01.2024
New: HBw-Aktuell 12/2023

This issue contains:

  • Beautiful stamp
  • Early Office Museum - a short review
  • Collectors' meeting in Essen
  • Fortuna Portable, built in 1931
  • Where can I find the serial number of the standard typewriters?
  • Lighters part 3

30.11.2023
Historische Bürowelt No. 134 / December 2023

This issue contains

  • My first typewriter: Olympia Simplex
  • Schooling Calculating Machines
  • History of the development of shorthand - Part 1: Shorthand in antiquity and modern times
  • The Muldivo trading company and Henri Emanuel Longini
  • Pütter and Schmitz: Biographical information and further patents - including typewriters
  • Tens’ carry in simple single-axis adding machines
English translations of these articles can be found in the members area.

23.11.2023
New: HBw-Aktuell 11/2023

This issue contains:

  • Another milestone anniversary: 200 years of
    Jakob Amsler-Laffon, inventor of the polar planimeter
  • From the writing machine to the "thinking" machine?
    Novel about typewriter inventor Peter Mitterhofer presented in Parcines/ Partschins
  • Carved in stone ...
  • Meeting at the Decksteiner / Cologne
  • North German regional meeting
  • Typewriters - Lighters
  • Document creation then and now ...

30.10.2023
New: HBw-Aktuell 10/2023

This issue contains:

  • Collectors meeting at the Kaiser in Ansbach
  • German Typewriter Museum Bayreuth - a status report
  • Modern manufacturing methods in the restoration and repair of historical machines
  • 400 Years of the Calculating Machine -Activities in Braunschweig
  • A Summira with safety lock - and 32 cm long
  • Odhner display model
  • Are typewriter collectors all non-smokers???

09.10.2023
New: HBw-Aktuell 09/2023

This issue contains:

  • Report from the AGM 2023 and the supporting program in Herrenberg
    • Festive event in Herrenberg
    • Ceremony and symposium in Tübingen
    • Annual General Meeting and Collectors' Meeting
    • Visit of the pit stop museum in Tübingen
    • Minutes IFHB e.V. General Meeting
  • 400 years of mechanical calculation
  • Museum night at the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum in Paderborn

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