The Technologies involved in Victorian Letter Writing

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Writing letters

• The Portable Writing Desk — the Victorian Laptop

Creating letter-writing materials

• Envelope-folding machine
• The Perkins D cylinder Printing Press on which the first stamps were produced

The technologies involved in sending mail

• Post Boxes
• The Mail Coach vs. the Mail Train (from the 1849 Illustrated London News

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Last modified 12 July 2010