Sep 14, 2025

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The long and short of it

George Kerr Anderson was an American inventor and tinkerer who spent a lifetime making improvements to devices – from lengthening the words that could be typed with a typewriter before its ribbon had to be changed, to creating standalone shorthand machines. A.S.Ganesh tells you more about a man and his machines, both of which are now mostly forgotten…

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