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01.12.2025
Historische Bürowelt No. 142 / December 2025

This issue contains

  • Diplomat 1 - an unexpected reunion after many decades
  • The Facit Man (Facitgubben) - What a character !
  • Typewriter prototype by Lajos Pereszlényi –
    The smallest typebar typewriter with a full keyboard
  • Christiaan Huygens' adding and multiplying machine – the missing link? Part II
  • Experience report "Optima Erfurt" with exotic fonts
  • "Triumphator" from Leipzig and "Lehigh" from New York –
    involuntary relatives through the First World War
English versions of these articles can be found in the members area.

22.11.2025
New: HBw-Aktuell 11/2025

This issue contains:

  • Adix, Polygraph, Hamann Manus, Telefon-Joker und mehr
  • 98. Norddeutsches Sammlertreffen
  • Die Sekretärin – Ein Blick in die 50er Jahre mit der Münchner Kulturhistorikerin Annegret Braun
  • Fortgesetzte Fantasie ...
  • Wieviel Bier oder Limos haben wir getrunken?
  • Neue Beiträge in Typewriters Paradise

30.10.2025
New: HBw-Aktuell 10/2025

This issue contains:

  • μ-Museum – The museum at a historic calculating machine site
  • Small GREIF chain adder by B. Behr
  • Fantasy or reality?
  • Fatal typo
  • Delivery times ...
  • New posts on Typewriters Paradise

30.09.2025
New: HBw-Aktuell 09/2025

This issue contains:

  • Ansbach collectors' meeting
  • Pneumatic typewriter from Soblik
  • Can't see the forest for the trees ...
  • The Dumont Calculation Disc
  • Update on upcoming events
  • Small GREIF chain calculator by B. Behr
  • New posts in Typewriters Paradise

01.09.2025
Historische Bürowelt No. 141 / September 2025

This issue contains

  • Businessman Ulrich Nordmann – Globetrotter and manufacturer!
  • An Arithmometer for Lenin - Pravda reveals the truth
  • The aluminum Remington Standard 6 and 7
  • Addendum: Remington 7 in a plexiglass housing
  • Christiaan Huygens' adding and multiplying machine – the missing link? Part I
  • Restoring Typewriter Keyboards
  • How to fix stiff or stuck sliders on the CURTA Calculator
English versions of these articles can be found in the members area.

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