A better image. Typewritten, but looks like needlework.

She apparently also typed out and illustrated with her typewriter a few copies of Don Quixote in the 1930s? Now at the Biblioteca de Catalunya and Universidad de Montevideo.

Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

I've become obsessed with "Miss Julia Camp," a court reporter who became the first linotype operator. She typed so fast that Mergenthaler enlisted her to demo the machine. The problem: hired labor could never meet the standard she set. Ironically, Mergenthaler thought women incapable of typesetting.

One of the earliest faxed images, made by Shelford Bidwell ca 1890.

The image was scanned with light, line by line. A selenium photocell transmitted the light as electricity, burning marks onto chemically-treated paper; or the image blocked it (no mark). Et voilà, "distant electric vision."

A dandy roll, used in the 19th-century to press wire-made watermarks -- like those found on handmade, laid papers -- into machine-made paper. Skeuomorphic technology?

A fierce defense of the player piano, against the "anti-piano-player puritans of music," circa 1910s.

"The anti-piano-player pianist is, in fact, a million removes from mere nature; he would be helpless without the huge box of mechanical tricks in front of him"!

Stop doomscrolling for a sec to stare at these mesmerizing woodcuts by Nicolas de Staël. Made by stabbing at a block of wood.

Photograph faxed over 800 miles of telegraph lines in 1901.

(from the Peterson Collection at Case Western Reserve University)