History of the Typewriter

—213— i Fig. 154. necessary. Marginal stops can be set to any desired spot, the carriage being released by means of a key for that purpose. The types pass through a guide, so that align- ment is said to be perfect and permanent. The machine works with very little noise, and the touch is light and pleasant. The platen is a wide one, and the keyboard, extending to forty-two keys, and consequently capable of carrying eighty-four characters, will permit of the intro- duction of fractions or foreign characters, and means are provided for the action of dead keys, that is, keys which, when depressed, do not move the carriage, in order to permit of the introduction of accents, etc., in non-English words. The Folding Typewriter. Here we have a very portable and exceedingly light machine, capable of doing very fine work, fitted with the two-colour ribbon device, and made almost entirely of aluminium. The machine takes its name from the fact that, when n°t in use, the platen folds over on a hinge so as to fill UP the space over the keyboard, and thus enables the machine to go into the smallest space possible. The