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	Typewriter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The method by which the typewriter actually marks the paper now varies as greatly as types of computer printers do, but until the end of the 20th century was by the impact of a metal (or, later, metallized plastic) type element against an "inked" ribbon which caused ink to be deposited on the paper.
		Typewriter erasers were equipped with a brush for brushing away eraser crumbs and paper dust, and using the brush properly was an important element of typewriting skill, because if erasure detritus fell into the typewriter, a very small buildup could cause the typebars to jam in their narrow supporting grooves.
		In the Eastern Bloc, typewriters (together with printing presses, copy machines, and later computer printers) were a controlled technology, with secret police in charge of maintaining files of the typewriters and their owners.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Typewriter (3485 words)

	Typewriter keyboard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1874 Sholes and Glidden typewriters established the QWERTY layout for the letter keys that is used nowadays in Anglophone countries for virtually all computer keyboards and the majority of other keyboards.
		There were many other typewriter designs competing with QWERTY during the latter part of the nineteenth century although QWERTY eventually came to dominate the market.
		Radically different layouts such as the Dvorak keyboard have been marketed for many decades but have not been able to replace the QWERTY layout, despite the advantages claimed by their proponents.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Typewriter_keyboard (327 words)

	Office Typewriters
		(1891), the Rem-Sho Typewriter (1896)/Fay-Sholes Typewriter (1901), and the Fox Typewriter (1898).
		On the single keyboard International, each key controlled two type-bars, for example, one type-bar with an upper case "E" and the other with a lower case "e." When the operator depressed the shift key, the cylindrical set of type-bars rotated so that the upper case type-bar took the position of the lower case type-bar.
		The Universal keyboard was set up with the QWERTY arrangement, but the type-elements and the finger pieces on the keys could be changed to accommodate other keyboard arrangements.
	www.officemuseum.com /typewriters_office_models.htm (2823 words)

	Shield for typewriter keyboard and cylinder - Patent 4294557
		The keyboard shield portion is also flexibly attached to the top of the typewriter so that the operator can raise the keyboard portion simply by raising his wrists against the bottom of it.
		All of the typewriter shields known to the applicants are relatively bulky and unportable.
		The keyboard screen is maintained in a horizontal position over the keyboard, in part, by a vertical extension member hingedly connected on one side and a horizontal extension member which is, in turn, hingedly connected to the vertical extension member.
	www.freepatentsonline.com /4294557.html (2138 words)

	keys1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Typewriter manufacturers were an important source of trained typists for at least the first fifty years of that technology.
		He owned the patent on the keyboard and had received at least $130,000 from the Carnegie Commission for Education for the studies performed while he was at the University of Washington.
		Although the Sholes (Qwerty) keyboard fails at conditions A and B (most typing is done on the top row and the balance between the two hands is 57% and 43%), the policy to put successively typed keys as far apart as possible favors factor C, thus leading to relatively rapid typing.
	wwwpub.utdallas.edu /~liebowit/keys1.html (9958 words)

	Eric Shackle's eBook - Typewriter - a one line word
		Typewriter keyboards were developed using a specific scheme that prevented frequently used key combinations from jamming the key mechanisms.
		The explanation of the QWERTY keyboard that I have always read or remembered was that the configuration of the keys was to place the most common characters in position under the fingers in the "home" position and the next common characters in the next most ready positions.
		After several years of shaking down, plus improvements in the typewriters, the now standard QWERTY keyboard was the result, and given that all touch-typing systems are taught with this keyboard it is a little late to change it for something logical.
	www.bdb.co.za /shackle/articles/typewriter.htm (2190 words)

	Typewriter keyboard - Patent 4878057
		For example, keyboards have been included in typewriters for a considerable number of decades to provide documentary records of the information typed and are still in use for such purposes.
		Furthermore, the keyboard can be operated with a normal amount of pressure on the keys to generate such a large and reliable electrical signal.
		It converts depressions of the keyboard area 14 to the generation of electrical signals by the crystals 24 without any moving parts and without the inclusion of an energy source such as a battery.
	www.freepatentsonline.com /4878057.html (5385 words)

	The ElectriClerk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Most of the computer keys are in roughly the same place as the corresponding typewriter keys, so connecting them was a fairly straightforward process.
		The silver rod running along the top of the typewriter runs from the chrome return lever on the left to a cam on the right, which rotates and pushes down on another rod which is connected to the computer "return" key hidden beneath the console.
		All the typewriter keys were resurfaced in vinyl so that they would match and so that they would be correctly labeled.
	www.ahleman.com /ElectriClerk6.html (130 words)

	A Brief History of Typewriters
		This means that the typist (confusingly called a "typewriter" herself in the early days) has to lift up the carriage to see her work.
		The QWERTY keyboard came to be called the "Universal" keyboard, as the alternative keyboards fought a losing battle against the QWERTY momentum.
		Index typewriters survived into the 20th century as children's toys; one commonly found example is the "Dial" typewriter made by Marx Toys in the 1920s and 30s.
	staff.xu.edu /~polt/typewriters/tw-history.html (801 words)

	the typewriter-keyboard conversion: putting it together (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The next task was to solder wires onto the terminals of the circuit board left over from the keyboard.
		Next I physically grouped all the wires by terminal, so that everything going to terminal 1 would be bundled together, everything to 2 would be together, etc. and labeled the bundles with masking tape and a marker.
		By the way, should you ever do this yourself, it would be handy to start off by marking on the underside of the typewriter which lever coresponds to which key.
	www.multipledigression.com /type/together.html (434 words)

	Howstuffworks "Why are the keys arranged the way they are on a "QWERTY" keyboard?"
		This typewriter was designed by Christopher Sholes and used the "QWERTY" keyboard we are all familiar with.
		This early typewriter used a mechanism with characters on the end of a bar.
		Depending on your keyboard you may even be able to pry off the keys and rearrange them in the Dvorak layout.
	www.howstuffworks.com /question458.htm (447 words)

	Why QWERTY was Invented
		As far as the typewriter keyboard is concerned, being first was the whole ball game.
		The QWERTY keyboard itself was determined by the existing mechanical linkages of the typebars inside the machine to the keys on the outside.
		The keyboard arrangement was considered important enough to be included on Sholes' patent granted in 1878 (see drawing), some years after the machine was into production.
	home.earthlink.net /~dcrehr/whyqwert.html (930 words)

	Reason magazine -- June 1996
		The typewriter keyboard is central to this literature because it appears to be the single best example where luck caused an inferior product to defeat a demonstrably superior product.
		It is frequently claimed that the keyboard was actually configured to reduce typing speed, since that would have been one way to avoid the jamming of the typewriter.
		After completing 83 hours on the new keyboard, we are told that the typing speed for this group had increased to an average of 56 net words per minute, a 75 percent increase.
	reason.com /9606/Fe.QWERTY.shtml (5420 words)

	The Dvorak Simplified Keyboard: Forty Years of Frustration
		The existing keyboard was designed experimentally by Christopher Sholes, the inventor of the typewriter, to slow the typist down, because the keys in his 1873 machine fell back into place by gravity.
		This keyboard is a scientific rearrangement of the letters on the typewriter keyboard which allows efficient and speedy typing.
		With no DSK typists in the contests, the performances on the standard keyboard were so dismal (at least one contestant won a third place with a zero net score) that they did not bother to announce the winning scores of each winner at the awards ceremony, as had been the case in previous years.
	infohost.nmt.edu /~shipman/ergo/parkinson.html (5748 words)

	Keyboard (from typewriter) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		It is the first six letters in the top alphabet row on a typewriter keyboard.
		The typewriter, however, had to be invented several dozen times before someone finally got it right.
		The first electric typewriter was invented by Thomas Edison in 1872, and it became the high-speed ticker tape machine that was used for reporting transactions on the stock market.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-209149?ct= (630 words)

	Typewriter keyboard: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Typewriter keyboard
		The 1874 Sholes & Glidden typewriters established the QWERTY layout for the letter keys that is used nowadays in Anglophone countries for virtually all computer keyboards and the majority of other keyboards.
		Radically different layouts such as the Dvorak keyboard have been proposed but have not been able to displace the QWERTY layout, despite the advantages claimed by their proponents.
		this is a stub article for an in-depth treatment of keyboard history and ergonomics
	www.encyclopedian.com /ty/Typewriter-keyboard.html (124 words)

	Rajan Typewriter Keyboard Repair
		This site is geared toward typewriter repair technicians, however, end-users are encouraged to use our nationwide typewriter repair referral service.
		With over 25,000 keyboards repaired, we are the national leader in typewriter keyboard repair.
		All keyboards repaired by us come with a 1-year warranty (from your installation date--no need to worry if the warranty expires while your stock is on the shelf).
	www.rajankbd.com (212 words)

	Keymileage: Letting Your Fingers Do Too Much Walking
		The standard "QWERTY" keyboard was invented by Christopher Latham Sholes, to be used on the first commercially-produced typewriter in 1873.
		While designing the typewriter, Sholes found that his machine (pictured on the left) was subject to intolerably frequent jamming, especially when people typed nearby hammers too quickly.
		Keymileage measures the number of inches between coordinates on the keyboard as the fingers are moving.
	www.integrity.com /homes/tomandkaren/Keymileage (778 words)

	tty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The basic idea would be to use the impact of each rod's print head with the roller as the electrical contact.
		This also might let us find out whether there's any truth to the rumor that manual typewriters are better for your wrists than computer keyboards.
		``ElectriClerk: A 1988 MacSE with a 1923 Underwood typewriter for its keyboard.'' I doubt I was the inspiration, but still, I'm glad it happened, because it was a moral imperative.
	www.jwz.org /gruntle/tty.html (478 words)

	Discover: The curse of QWERTY.(why an inferior typewriter keyboard became the standard)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The curse of QWERTY.(why an inferior typewriter keyboard became the standard)
		The slow, tiring QWERTY keyboard, invented in 1874, was so entrenched in businesses that the superior Dvorak keyboard of 1932 had no chance of becoming accepted.
		It was boring to type the letters in the upper row of my typewriter keyboard 20 times, then go on to the next row.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:19227826&refid=holomed_1 (209 words)

	Q is for QWERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The typewriter keyboard used almost universally in America (and with some variations throughout much of the world) was created by Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and S. Soule around 1870.
		One of the design goals of the QWERTY keyboard was to separate frequently used pairs of letters, to prevent pairs of typebars from striking the platen at the same time and sticking together.
		After all, since it's unlikely that we're going to change the typewriter keyboard configuration, we might as well be consistent and re-order our dictionaries to fit...
	www.kith.org /logos/words/upper/Q.html (548 words)

	No. 719: QWERTY
		Most of the 5000 typewriters in use had that familiar keyboard, awkward as it is. But no matter!
		In 1867 a typewriter pioneer first set up the QWERTY arrangement so his salesman could peck out the word typewriter quickly and easily.
		She hadn't yet thought of memorizing the keyboard.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi719.htm (576 words)

	Typewriter keyboard - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Typewriter keyboard - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Typewriter keyboard contains research on
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Typewriter_keyboard (329 words)

	the typewriter-keyboard conversion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Sometime in October we were talking about different keyboards on the market for people such as herself.
		In the course of the conversation she mentioned that she finds old-fashioned mechanical typewriters much easier on her fingers because they offer gradual resistance rather than the feeling of moving through air then hitting a wall, like most computer keyboards.
		The short how-to is thus: in a regular keyboard, each keypress completes a circuit.
	www.multipledigression.com /type (210 words)

	Typewriter Keyboard 2.10 - MacUpdate
		the typewriter sound as you press keys is built into panther.
		In the Keyboard tab, turn on Slow Keys, and move its Acceptance delay slider all the way to the right (Short).
		I don't miss the mechanical issues of a typewriter, but the sounds are part of the writing process for me and it's great to hear the clack and ding once again.
	www.macupdate.com /info.php/id/12077 (509 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The user can still operate many of the VCR functions by pressing buttons that still say "record" or "play." Thus, the computer/human interface looks the same as it did 20 years ago; the only difference is that the buttons now operate a computer instead of electrical or mechanical components.
		It still uses the same QWERTY computer/human interface, even though that interface was designed to be used with the relatively inefficient manual typewriter and is far from the optimum design for a computer keyboard.
		The QWERTY typewriter keyboard and the positioning of automobile controls such as the gas and brake pedals and gear shift patterns are hardware examples of such standards; common computer languages such as BASIC and C++ are examples in the software industry.
	www.eff.org /legal/cases/Lotus_cases/compsci_1095_supct_amicus.brief (5335 words)

	Typewriter keyboard - hack a day - www.hackaday.com _ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Here is a full conversion of a typewriter into a computer keyboard.
		Since you can still use the typewriter normally after the mod, Erik has essentially made a typewriter keystroke logger.
		Okay, so that isn’t really a threat, but this is a nice project that tries to overcome the stress inducing on/off nature of modern keyboards.
	www.hackaday.com /entry/1234000993049456 (723 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		In the United States, the most common keyboard layout for computer keyboards remains the one designed by Christopher Sholes for the original Remington "Type Writer" in 1876.
		First, I needed a quantifiable metric by which one keyboard layout could be compared to another.
		I just can't think of a way in which that could be done, since a keyboard layout is a permutation of a list rather than a selection from a multiset.
	www.visi.com /~pmk/evolved.html (2253 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Here at Any Keyboard we believe we've put together the best and biggest keyboard directory and keyboard resource site on the Internet.
		We've got hundreds of pages, with hundreds of keyboard links organized in a way to help you review the information you're seeking FAST.
		Go ahead -- use the various keyboard links to compare sites, find the best resources and make your own ratings, evaluations and comparisons just like epinions, which is great for comparison shopping in picking, choosing or buying things.
	www.anykeyboard.com (96 words)

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