American office life once looked very different than it does today. Through clouds of cigarette smoke, you’d see lines of desks in open-area bullpens or, starting in the late 1960s, separated by cubicles. It was common to find typewriters and many other analog gadgets on desktops through much of the 20th century before bulky early computers took over in the 1990s.  Technology, of course, continued to advance, and as office work itself became faster, more specialized, and increasingly online, many formerly essential workplace objects faded into obscurity. Here are seven once-common office fixtures that have ...Read More