Sentence examples for writing balls from inspiring English sources

At the time of writing, Balls' second-to-last tweet was a week old and read thus: "Lots of media today – and meetings in Washington DC with Sir Alan Greenspan & Christine Lagarde, David Lipton & team at the IMF".

I wouldn't trade my keyboard for a Writing Ball.

(Image: Auction Team Koln, via Malling-Hansen Society, whash has many more pictures of the Writing Ball on its site).

And the reasons that typing won out might seem obvious — for one, it's impossible to see what you're typing when using a Writing Ball.

Offered a notepad afterwards, the Portuguese wrote "balls".

Besides a pen, a device whose origins are much more archaic than those of the Writing Ball, you could use dictation software.

This strange typographic pincushion is the world's first commercially produced typewriter: the Malling-Hansen Writing Ball, which was prototyped by the Danish inventor Rasmus Malling-Hansen in 1865.

The act of composing on a Writing Ball probably less resembles modern-day typing than it does scrying (peering into an object, like a crystal ball, in order to divine the future).

Until I.B.M. introduced a proportionally spaced typewriter in 1941, each character on a typewritten page — whether typed using the 1843 Patent Printer (considered the first American typewriter) or the 1870 "writing ball" invented by Pastor Rasmus Hans Johann Malling Hansen, head of an institute for the deaf in Copenhagen — occupied precisely the same amount of space.

Nietzsche began using a Malling-Hansen Writing Ball because of his failing eyesight which had disabled his ability to write by hand.

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