Could this clumsy machine, with its one handle and three buttons, be the ancestor of the present-day Hebrew keyboard? The Hebrew University people who took possession of the machine a few months ago think it is.
- By Michael Adler
- 25 Oct 2012
- 09:04AM
Origins of the Ivriya are not at all unclear. The machine is a Hebrew version of a popular German machine manufactured by Gundka-Werk GmbH from 1924 which was called GUNDKA, marketed later under a multitude of names worldwide (G&K, Write Easy, Frolio, etc. etc.) See either of my books The Writing Machine or Typewriters from Creed to QWERTY.
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