History of the Typewriter

— 62 — and giving lateral movement to the ribbon, without aid from the operator. Time is thereby saved, and the dura- bility of the ribbon increased. The margin-stops are instantaneously fixed by a touch at any point desired. A new device was incorporated for the writing of marginal notes without specially adjusting the margin-stop. The new keyboard lock renders it impossible to depress any key after the end of the line has been reached, thus- obviating the writing of several characters on one another. Fig 4? The No. 8 Remington is the ^brief-sized machine. In all essential particulars it resembles the No. 7, saving that the carriage is longer. Owing to the weight of the carriage, and the consequent increased tension necessary to pull it along, there is necessarily a much greater strain on the escapement device in all brief machines. An improved form of escapement is therefore now being adopted for the No. 8 machine. Although its general form was settled so long ago, the Remington has been surprisingly capable of adapting itself to new devices. The tabulator, the loose leaf devices, the card attachment, the marvellous power of the Remington as a stencil cutter, all these and many other features render it essentially an up-to-date machine, on which the lustre of perpetual youth would seem to sit. The proprietors’ boast that the machine has never seemed to them to be too good for improvement has made the Remington what it is