On The Road manuscript by Jack Kerouac. In April 1951, Kerouac taped together eight twenty-foot strips of teletype paper to form a single scroll some 127 feet long, feeding it into a portable typewriter. Perhaps it was written in one go, perhaps not.
Tag Archives: 1950s
Teletype Corporation’s Model 28 line of communications terminals was first delivered to the US Military in 1951, via.
Sven Markelius, textile design Pythagoras, 1953. NKs Textilkammare, Sweden. Via Jacksons.se. The architect Markelius met Gropius on visiting the bauhaus in 1927 and was highly impressed by the ideas of modernism.
Police dog Tosca by Will Hollis, 1957. via
Julio Le Parc, acrylic on canvas, 1959. via
Marianne Richter, Rubirosa carpet, 1958. Märta Måås-Fjetterström AB, Sweden. Via Wright
Design 102 textile design by Frank Lloyd Wright, produced by F Schumacher & Co in 1957.
The textile graphics of Miguel Covarrubias, an exhibition at the Museo Textil de Oaxaca, 2013. Thanks to Geraldine Juárez for the catalog.
Weather Teletype Code, 1957.
Weather information was typed on a teletype machine that produced a perforated tape coded with the data, forecast or warning. This tape could then be used on one or more teletype circuits to distribute the information. The image below displays the punchtape code. Many meteorologists and communicators could read this code directly from the tape.