History of the Typewriter

—240— The Norica Typewriter bears, it will be noticed, some slight resemblance to the Triumph, since the typebars which, when at rest, stand nearly upright, strike down to the front of the platen. The machine has forty-five keys, governing ninety characters, worked with a single shift key. It embodies most of the conveniences of modern typewriters, including a back space key, and the line spacing gear is easily thrown out of action to permit of writing on ruled lines. It employs a narrow (rVh) ribbon, and its weight is about 16 ks. Fig. 173. The Saturn. This machine illustrates a very in- genious device for a low priced typewriter. It will be seen that the types are engraved on a wheel and that a row of nine keys occupies the front of the machine. At the^back of the keys is an index plate having five lines of characters, each row having nine letters to correspond