Gone with the keyboard: what have we lost by stopping writing by hand?
In early 1882, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche received a machine called the Mallin-Hansen writing sphere, an ingenious device with keys. The thinker’s vision had been worsening until manual writing was impossible for him. In March of that same year he was able to continue writing, now with a new instrument His friend, the composer Heinrich Köselitz, noted a […]… Learn more.