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Feb. 16, 1935: Another entry for the annals of “Things That Didn’t Catch On” from The Times’s Mid-Week Pictorial shows a demonstration of a typewriting device worn as gloves. Although the contraption was expected “to be useful in making bookkeeping entries,” its inventor, Alois Gamper of Bichlbach, Austria, failed to become a household name. Photo: The New York Times