When did the last typewriter factory close?
When did the last typewriter factory close?
2011
Godrej & Boyce in Mumbai stopped making manual typewriters
It was widely reported as the last typewriter factory in the world, which was not quite right — electronic typewriters are still made in small numbers, and other manual production had ended earlier. What ended at Godrej was the last large-scale manufacture of manual machines. Its final stock was a few hundred units, mostly in Arabic script.
- What
- Godrej & Boyce in Mumbai stopped making manual typewriters
- When
- 2011
- Category
- Technology that stopped
- Could this change?
- Not in any foreseeable way. The event is closed.
Technology that stopped
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Common questions
- When did the last typewriter factory close?
- 2011 — Godrej & Boyce in Mumbai stopped making manual typewriters.
- What happened?
- It was widely reported as the last typewriter factory in the world, which was not quite right — electronic typewriters are still made in small numbers, and other manual production had ended earlier. What ended at Godrej was the last large-scale manufacture of manual machines. Its final stock was a few hundred units, mostly in Arabic script.
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- When was the last roll of Kodachrome developed? 30 December 2010
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Sources
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation (CC0 1.0)