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Mechanical desktop typewriters, such as this Underwood Five, were long time standards of government agencies, newsrooms, and sales offices. They have been largely replaced by IBM Selectrics and newer electronic models. Models like this are occasionally st |
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There are 8 summaries on Typewriter.
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 Typewriter Summary
1,542 words, approx. 5 pages
 any of various machines for writing characters similar to those made by printers' types, especially a machine in which the characters are produced by steel types striking the paper through an inked ribbon with the types being actuated by corresponding... summary from source:
 Typewriter Summary
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The typewriter is a machine that prints characters one after the other on sheets of paper. Many attempts to design a character-printing machine were made in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, especially to create raised characters for reading by... summary from source:
Typewriter Summary
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Machine for writing characters similar to those made by printers' types, especially a machine in which the characters are produced by steel types striking the paper through an inked ribbon, the types being activated by corresponding keys on a keyboard... summary from source:
 Manual Typewriter Summary
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A machine whose operation depends solely upon the mechanical action set in motion by striking a letter or character key. During the first 50 or more years in typewriting history, all such machines were manually operated (Figure... summary from source:
Electric Typewriter Summary
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A typewriter equipped with an electric motor that assists in operating the typebars and the carriage movements, while the typebars or type element is activated by a series of mechanical... summary from source:
Single-Element Typewriter Summary
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Typewriters using either a type ball or type wheel printing device. The IBM Selectric machine was the first modern typewriter of the group. FIGURE S.5B Cut away section of a... summary from source:
 Typewriter Summary
5,653 words, approx. 19 pages
A typewriter is a mechanical, electromechanical, or electronic device with a set of "keys" that, when pressed, causes characters to be printed on a medium, usually paper. For much of the 20th century, typewriters were indispensable tools in business... 
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