This issue contains

• Dictation machines in the office
• A typewriter for Persia
• Woldemar Heinitz, designer and producer of well known calculators
• On the design and dating of a "Monopol Duplex" calculating machine
• Reminiscence of the years as an apprentice 1942-1945 in Berlin
• The "Velographs" of Mr. Eggis
• Office equipment over 100 years ago
• Addendum to Leo Borger / FACTA (HBw no. 98)
• Book review: The last original - the Leibniz calculating machine ...
• Bar Lock 116 years ago

Martin Reese

In this issue (among others):

• The historic computer page
• Dingwerth's "History of German Typewriter Factories"
• SHBS swap meet in Pfäffikon
• CeBiT meeting in Hannover-Garbsen
• North German regional meeting in Braak
• Regional meeting in Essen

Peter Muckermann

Leonhard Dingwerth has made his collection of historical typewriter advertisements available to all IFHB members. The more than 1,000 pages were scanned by Claus-Peter Soelter and can now be accessed online in the members area (new menu item: "Typewriter ads").

In this issue (among others):

• The pocket calculator page
• New book: "Schl@gfertige Typen" ("Re@dy Types")
• New book: "The Paradox of the Waste Paper Basket"
• Unknown version of the Venus turns up!
• Further information on the Titania typewriter
• SHBS swap meet in Münchenstein, February 2015

Peter Muckermann

Our member Jos Legrand from the Netherlands has written and published a book by this title, in English. It’s about the history of the wastebasket from 1870 to 1930, and all the wastepaper that ended up in it. More information on this book can be found in the section Publications