History of the Typewriter

— 148 — They are surprisingly good manifolders, and cut very fair stencils. They are not likely to get out of order and are all round, good machines. The keyboard is arranged thus:— Z X K?G B V Q J &PWFULCWMY DHIATENSO'R and that this arrangement is a purely scientific one may be gauged from the fact that no less than 70 per cent, of the letters in any ordinary piece of composition may be written by means of the bottom line. The Gardner. This machine was the child of the Gardner British Type- writer Co., Ltd., and was manufactured at their works in Carr Street, Manchester. It is stated to have been designed to meet the demand for a low priced typewriter, which should be thoroughly serviceable, and capable of a speed equal to that of the higher priced machines. In order to attain this end, the parts were reduced to the lowest possible number, and the power of manifolding was not sought. The makers, in seeking their end, introduced into the machine a principle, novel in typewriters, but well known in some musical instruments, that is to say, the simultaneous depression of two keys in order to produce the effect of a third. The arrangement of the keys on the keyboard