History of the Typewriter
Forfatter: Geo. Carl Mares
År: 1909
Forlag: Guilbert Pitman
Sted: London
Sider: 318
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Sons, of Newgate Street, London, also offered the Crandall
under the same style. If our memory serves us rightly,
they suggested that drapers and others should run it as
a “ side line ! ”
A Chinese Typewriter. An American missionary in
China, Rev. D. Z. Sheffield, president of the Tung-Cho
College, has invented a remarkable typewriter, capable of
printing the 4,000 characters the Chinaman finds absolutely
necessary for transacting his ordinary business affairs. 7 he
Scientific American, from which our illustration is repro-
duced, gives the following description of the machine.
The 4,000 characters are grouped in alphabetical order
according to their accepted spelling in English, a large
number of those most commonly used being placed in a
Fig. 191.
separate group regardless of spelling. The type are cast
on the under part of the large wheel, the upper side of
which is covered with printed characters, each one exactly
over the type it represents. The carriage moves freely
to the right or left, and projecting from it there is a pointer
which is used to locate the characters to be printed. In
operation the wheel is revolved with the left hand until
the group or line in which the desired character to be found
is opposite the carriage, and the carriage is then moved
with the right hand to the right or left until the pointer
covers the character sought for. To the right will be seen
a little crank, one turn of which inks the type, while a
small hammer forces the paper against the type, leaving
a clear impression. The type-wheel locks during the
printing and is automatically corrected if slightly out of place,
the characters being brought into perfect alignment. The
mechanism performs the operation of spacing, etc., as in
other machines.
At first thought it would seem even with this machine,
that the writing of Chinese would be slow and tedious, but
when it is considered that the written character consists of