I don't need to explain what a typewriter is, do I?
Crystal's historical notes:
1714 - Henry Mill (English engineer) patents "an artificial machine or method
for impressing or transcribing of lettrs, one after another, as in writing, whereby all writing whatsoever may be engrossed in paper or parchment to neat
and exact as not to be distinguished from print".
"No trace of this exists, if it was ever produced." Sounds like a pipe dream.
23-6-1868 (Milwaukee) - A bunch of Americans, including Christopher Latham Sholes and Carlos Glidden, patented a "type-writer", which became the first commercially successful device.
(Remington started manufacturing it in 1873, with QWERTY keyboard layout.)
He doesn't mention a date when the typewriter became obsolete.
The typewriter that came with my first office here had been customized by Bruce
Biggs to include a few phonetic symbols. I hung on to it well into the office-computer age, because putting phonetic symbols into text via computer,
at first, was as cumbersome as drawing them by hand. Also I just liked typewriters. I still own one, but haven't used it for years. Looking for a buyer.
Ar an ceathrú lá is fiche de mí Meitheamh, scríobh Ross Clark:
I don't need to explain what a typewriter is, do I?
Crystal's historical notes:
1714 - Henry Mill (English engineer) patents "an artificial machine or method
for impressing or transcribing of lettrs, one after another, as in writing,
whereby all writing whatsoever may be engrossed in paper or parchment to neat
and exact as not to be distinguished from print".
"No trace of this exists, if it was ever produced." Sounds like a pipe dream.
Common thing in patents these days, to patent things you haven’t implemented.
(I attempted this once, software for phone and chat systems that warned the user when time zone and calendar differences meant it was unlikely the other party in the communication would be reachable, but other parties pre-dated me.)
Shouldn’t really be allowed, but hard to audit.
I was going to say that I was surprised patenting something that wasn’t built
was allowed at that point, but on reflection there’s no reason to be surprised.
I don't need to explain what a typewriter is, do I?
Crystal's historical notes:
1714 - Henry Mill (English engineer) patents "an artificial machine or
method for impressing or transcribing of lettrs, one after another, as
in writing, whereby all writing whatsoever may be engrossed in paper or parchment to neat and exact as not to be distinguished from print".
"No trace of this exists, if it was ever produced." Sounds like a pipe
dream.
23-6-1868 (Milwaukee) - A bunch of Americans, including Christopher
Latham Sholes and Carlos Glidden, patented a "type-writer", which became
the first commercially successful device.
(Remington started manufacturing it in 1873, with QWERTY keyboard layout.)
He doesn't mention a date when the typewriter became obsolete.
Op 24/06/2024 om 3:43 schreef Ross Clark:
I don't need to explain what a typewriter is, do I?
Crystal's historical notes:
1714 - Henry Mill (English engineer) patents "an artificial machine or
method for impressing or transcribing of lettrs, one after another, as
in writing, whereby all writing whatsoever may be engrossed in paper
or parchment to neat and exact as not to be distinguished from print".
"No trace of this exists, if it was ever produced." Sounds like a pipe
dream.
23-6-1868 (Milwaukee) - A bunch of Americans, including Christopher
Latham Sholes and Carlos Glidden, patented a "type-writer", which
became the first commercially successful device.
(Remington started manufacturing it in 1873, with QWERTY keyboard
layout.)
He doesn't mention a date when the typewriter became obsolete.
It must be called for every now and then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW8dGwa2zRw
This one I didn't know:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuaeXAvU3RI
In the sixties or seventies I once saw on television a
"Concerto for 64 typewiters", computer-controlled.
It sounded nicely rhythmic from what I recall. No trace of it is to be
found on the internet though.
But I did find this:
In Spe typewriter concerto:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGe9qthRUXU (etc.)
Nice language, Estonian, some poetry here:
Antidolorosum:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46cmRkT6BCk&t=1185s
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