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01.06.2025
Historische Bürowelt No. 140 / June 2025

This issue contains

  • Fallen out of time: The Japanese index typewriter "KKT Typewriter"
  • Llorens - Approaching an unknown adding machine
  • The ribbon technology of the SMITH PREMIER 10, COLUMBIA BAR LOCK 10 and the MIGNON 4
  • Willi Faber and his square root mechanism in the Brunsviga double calculator – a true 6-function calculator
  • Sholes & Glidden - A collector's dream come true
  • Conto – an adding machine from Thalwil / Switzerland
English versions of these articles can be found in the members area.

21.05.2025
New: HBw-Aktuell 05/2025

This issue contains:

  • And they still exist - typewriting writers
  • 50 years ago: A small calculating machine for children
  • Payment / currency systems in Great Britain
  • New posts in Typewriters Paradise

04.05.2025
New: HBw-Aktuell 04/2025

This issue contains:

  • General meeting in Osterweddingen near Magdeburg
  • Grüson's calculating disk, Magdeburg, 1791
  • The special computing device for technologists (Nieter system)
  • Costa Rica - Visit to our IFHB member Jorge Granados
  • Minutes of the general meeting of the IFHB e.V. on 26.04.2025
  • Hanover Herrenhausen - Collectors' meeting at the Burgland allotment garden association
  • Obituary for the founder of the Arithmeum
  • News from Typewriters Paradise

30.03.2025
New: HBw-Aktuell 03/2025

This issue contains:

  • North German collectors' meeting in the Braaker Krug
  • Cologne Collectors' Meeting and Breker Auction
  • Does anyone know the Herzstark "Autodiv"? A small addition
  • New posts in Typewriters Paradise
  • Calculate working hours ...
  • A new old BRUNSVIGA calculating machine
  • A rediscovery after 25 years ...

03.03.2025
Historische Bürowelt No. 139 / March 2025

This issue contains

  • Out of the woodwork - The Axial
  • 100 years of Walther calculating machines even in the electronic age
  • Comptometer with single column of 60th exists
  • Remington Portable Typewriters in Metal Housings
  • Walther poodles and other advertising materials from Walther
  • ALPINA - The typewriter and its designers
English versions of these articles can be found in the members area.

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