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By the 1930s, the typewriter was such a useful writing tool that even coin-operated conversions were made. Ray Bradbury famously used a coin-operated typewriter in the basement of UCLA’s Powell Library to write Fahrenheit 451. Learn more about the history and design of #typewriters in our exhibition, "The Typewriter: An Innovation in Writing" on display, post-security, in Terminal 2. http://bit.ly/Thetypewriter
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