History of the Typewriter

—260— No lower case letters were used, and the machine, which was to sell at $65, died in 1891, after $60,000 had been lost in the venture. Barrett. This machine was announced in 1904, but does not appear (so far as our enquiries permit us to say) to have been actually placed on the market. Bennington. This machine has been the subject of several announcements, but for reasons which have, apparently, been sufficient to its sponsors, it has not yet found its way to the market. It is a visible writer, strongly Fig. 189. resembling the Bar-Lock in appearance, and its special feature seems to be, if we are correctly informed, the power to strike short words and other frequent combinations, at one blow. We cannot agree that this is a good thing, for this reason : One may very well learn to depress a special key for such a word as “ the,” but unless a corre- sponding upper case logotype is provided for “ The,” the mental hesitation arising will be more than to cover any advantage which might accrue from the use of a single type for “ the.” It would obviously not be possible to provide duplicate forms of every word provided with logotypes, as by so doing, the keyboard would be swelled to absolutely