More than a century ago, an innovative word-processing device combined a single removable type element, an unconventional, scientifically designed keyboard, and the latest in lightweight materials
Ruth Schwartz Cowan has made a career of discovering unlikely truths about our material world and how it got that way—and still finds colleagues who think the subject isn’t quite legitimate
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