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noun - hand-operated character printer for printing written messages one character at a time
TYPEWRITERS - A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for writing characters similar to those produced by printer's movable type. Typically, a ty...
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Their ribbons aren't changed much anymore |
Bygone office equipment |
Overcoming resistance, pretty wise to convert old office equipment |
ancestors of word processors |
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In 1908 Camillo Olivetti opened a plant in Italy to manufacture these |
Early successful models of these in the U.S. were Woodstock, Remington & Underwood |
Typewriters description |
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A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for writing characters similar to those produced by printer's movable type. Typically, a typewriter has an array of keys, and pressing one causes a different single character to be produced on the paper, by causing a ribbon with dried ink to be struck against the paper by a type element similar to the sorts used in movable type letterpress printing. Commonly a separate type element (called a typebar) corresponds to each key, but the mechanism may also use a single type element (such as a typeball) with a different portion of it used for each possible character. At the end of the nineteenth century, the term typewriter was also applied to a person who used a typing machine.* The first commercial typewriters were introduced in 1874, but did not become common in offices until after the mid-1880s. The typewriter quickly became an indispensable tool for practically all writing other than personal handwritten correspondence. It was wi |