History of the Typewriter

-:49> that the only weakness about it was, that it was not carried tar enough An arrangement was therefore made providing or a double shift key : the printing being of the lower case otters when the machine was normal, upper case letters being obtained by the depression of the upper case shift key and figures and signs by the depression of the figure key. The Wilhams Typewriter Co., in their earlier models provided, as we shall see, for this double shift arrangement’ and in their literature of those days brought forward the oilowmg argument in favour of it. The keyboard thev nad was as follows : * SPACE KEY and they argued thus : tt ^cGurrin’ one the most expert operators in the refe'Jem SttateS’ ' The question must be considered in eference to speed m actual work (which includes accuracy) finers g’ ‘ ’S limited by the action of ‘he hngers. To demonstrate this, let an operator take a new practising the ““ write Then> after practising the sentence, time himself again, and he will find he can write it much faster ; and further practice on the particular sentence will increase the speed on it to nearly or quite double that on new matter. Now let the sS hr H C ?ew sentence> and he will find his speed lias dropped back to about what it was before he mmenced practising the first sentence. Why is this ? tte mMfe not CapfaMe,°f the ,same rapidity. It is because tile mind is not so familiar with the keys. If, therefore the DeprUerssi2hethein 1 ‘°’ “æ SP“d wiU mechanis'd I -d’rt k<T ‘J" the Remington is purely _ ■ ' n addition to this, it requires no time To be a tZXT ?nKthe Remington’ therefore> * —s tha? th.5 P I 1 f ‘ r lnvented which. instead of adding to the labour of an already overcrowded mind, will plafe a