History Professor Thomas Mullaney is writing the first-ever global history of the Chinese typewriter. In this episode of, "In Their Own Words: Stanford Scholars on Their Research," Prof. Mullaney shares how he was drawn to studying one of the most misunderstood technological innovations of the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries.
"In Their Own Words" is a video series that highlights the research of Stanford humanities professors.
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