Ellen Lupton is a senior curator in contemporary design at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. Her museum has many typewriters in its collection.
Hewitt's nearest rival would probably have been Senator Pendleton who stood father to civil service reform in 1882, an attempt to correct a vice that should never have been allowed to be born.
The French President Francois Hollande has announced details of a new government he hopes will breathe fresh life into his policies to restore economic prosperity. Reporting from Paris, Gavin Hewitt.