Info about The Malling-Hansen Society

Rasmus Malling-Hansen

The Writing Ball

Earliest known sketches of the Writing Ball.

The first prototype

The Mini Writing Ball

Interactive Visualization and Computer Images

Denmark 1872 The Takygraf

England 1872 The Takygraf

Sweden 1873 The Takygraf

USA 1875 The Takygraf

Malling-Hansen´s Application for a Patent in Berlin Rejected.

Writing ball patent in Sachsen 2nd of June 1870.

Writing Ball Patent 1 November 1870 in the Grand Duchy of Baden.

Malling-Hansen's patent in Bavaria, 12.th of November 1870.

Danish Patents 1864 – 1884.

Production places

The exhibitions

Skriftprøve med skrivekugleskrift fra 1879.

Exhibition in Denmark, 2015.

Financial Support

Rasmus Malling-Hansens annoncekampagne for skrivekuglen i 1879-1880.

Articles from recent time 1/3

Articles from recent time 2/3

Articles from recent time 3/3

Articles from Malling-Hansen's lifetime 1/4

Articles from Malling-Hansen's lifetime 2/4

Articles from Malling-Hansen's lifetime 3/4

Articles from Malling-Hansen's lifetime 4/4

The Controversy in 1924/25

The cryptographic writing ball

Nummer 46 lebt!

Writing Ball No 67 belonging to Bornholms Museum.

A Surprising Discovery - a Second Specimen of Writing Ball No 69.

Writing Ball No 102.

The Writing Ball of Svendborg Museum.

Writing Ball no. 124 found!

Skrivekugle serienummer 126/10: Håndskrevet brugsanvisning.

The Writing Ball of Vejle Museums.

A Rare and Peculiar Writing Ball in Sweden.

Rasmus Malling-Hansen advertising the writing ball in Illustrirte Zeitung, 1881-1886.

Pressrelease from DASA in Dortmund

Typing on a Malling-Hansen Writing Ball

The Malling-Hansen writing ball keyboard.

The Malling-Hansen Writing Ball: Assessing its Quality.

Unknown Swedish typewriter invented by C. R. Runqvist

Hans Reinholdtsen og skrivekuglen.

Historien om de tre stjålne skrivekugler.

Friedrich Nietzsche's typewriter ----free download----

Rasmus Malling-Hansen’s Norwegian Patent on an Instrument for Drying of Paper.

Periods in the Growth of Children

Fragment I: About Periodicity in the Weight of Children

Fragment II: Tägliche Wägungen der 130 Zöglinge

Fragment III: Periods in Children´s Weight and the Heat of the Sun

Educational Reformer

Malling-Hansen, the Volapykist

Malling-Hansen, the Freemason

Malling-Hansen, the Theologian.

Lolland-Falsters Historiske Samfunds Årbog 1951 om Pastor Gude.

Af Breve fra Hunseby Præstegaard.

Lectures by Malling-Hansen

First among equals! The Jonstrup centenary in 1890.

Malling-Hansen as a speech therapist in the treatment of stammerers

The International Geographical Congress in Paris 1875.

The Ring Mystery

Crossword Puzzle

Malling-Hansen-Biography

USA 1878 Portable model for paper strip

: The 1878 US patent model - owned today by Flavio Mantelli. Photo: Flavio Mantellig.

: The drawing shows which part of the writing ball the patent model is illustrating. Foto: Flavio Mantelli.

: Flavio Mantelli's collection of Malling-Hansen items. It includes both a writing ball of the 1878 model and a porcelain practicing model. Foto: Flavio Mantelli.