Olivetti Lettera Typewriter

The soft pads of flesh on the tips of your fingers spread out over the keyboard as they speak their deepest truths in a simple series of clicks that cascade through the silence like a river of icy rain falling on a hot tin roof. You can barely keep them from telling the world all the dirty and dark places they have gone. Olivetti S.p.A. is an Italian manufacturer of computers, printers and other business machines. The company was founded as a typewriter manufacturer in 1908 in Ivrea, near Turin, by Camillo Olivetti. The firm was mainly developed by his son Adriano Olivetti. Olivetti opened its first overseas manufacturing plant in 1930, and its Divisumma electric calculator was launched in 1948. Olivetti produced Italy's first electronic computer, the transistorised Elea 9003, in 1959, and purchased the Underwood Typewriter Company that year. In 1964 the company sold its electronics division to the American company General Electric. It continued to develop new computing products on its own; one of these was Programma 101, one of the first commercially-produced personal computers. In 1952, the Museum of Modern Art held an exhibit titled "Olivetti: Design in Industry"; today, many Olivetti products are still part of the museum's permanent collection. Another major show, mounted by the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 1969, toured five other cities. Olivetti was also renowned for the caliber of the architects it engaged to design its factories and offices. This sound uses the following file from Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=123344