In 1943 my first job was in the typing pool of the Milk Marketing Board, Thames Ditton. There were about 30 manual typewriters, mostly Imperials with 12 inch carriages and a few with 24 inch carriages ...

Dorothy Jacobs Pratt started working for NASA in the typing pool not long after her graduation from Stone High School, eventually going to work for Lockheed after several years in NASA's typing pool.

Throughout much of the 20th century—and long before the digital revolution—generations of women found employment in typing pools. A strict and disciplined environment, the typing pool saw dozens of ...