Typewriters

thumb|Mechanical typewriters, such as this 1930s Underwood Typewriter Company|Underwood, were long-time standards in government agencies, newsrooms, and offices. thumb|This late 1960s Olivetti Valentine typewriter designed by [[Ettore Sottsass became a pop-culture icon.]] A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for typing characters. Typically, a typewriter has an array of keys, and each one causes a different single character to be produced on paper by striking an inked ribbon selectively against the paper with a type element. Thereby, the machine produces a legible written

thumb|Teletype Corporation|Teletype teleprinters in use in England during [[World War II|alt=|250x250px]] thumb|Example of teleprinter art: a portrait of [[Dag Hammarskjöld, 1962|alt=]]

American politician (1819–1890)

control character, or mechanism, used to reset a device's position to the beginning of a line of text

American typewriter manufacturing company

thumb|Demonstration Marc Grandjean (1928) A steno machine, stenotype machine, shorthand machine, stenograph or steno writer is a specialized chorded keyboard or typewriter used by stenographers for shorthand use. In order to pass the United States Registered Professional Reporter test, a trained court reporter or closed captioner must write speeds of approximately 180, 200, and 225 words per minute (wpm) at very high accuracy in the categories of literary, jury charge, and testimony, respectively. Some stenographers can reach up to 375 words per minute, according to the website of the Californ

thumb|right|300px thumb|right|350px|Slight timing errors are compensated for by redundancy (engineering)|printing each line twice.

popular line of typewriters from IBM

English inventor who patented the first functional typewriter

musical composition

typewriter

Danish inventor (1835–1890)

early typewriter

Italian typewriter introduced in 1969

American typewriter manufacturer

tape used to correct mistakes during typing or handwriting

Japanese inventor (1882-1972)

manufacturer of firearms and typewriters

typewriter used to produce Japanese script

Italian design typewriter model

type of typewriter invented by George Blickensderfer

inked tape which typewriter keys strike to make impressions on paper

Olympia-Werke AG was an important German manufacturer of typewriters and other office equipment. Since the plant in near Wilhelmshaven was closed in 1991, only the brand name has survived.

American inventor (1820–1889)

thumb|Librascope LGP-30 (with cover in place). thumb|An LGP-30 in use at Manhattan College (1965). thumb|250px|LGP-30 at The Computer Museum, Boston with cover removed. Control panel is at top center, to the left of the memory drum. The LGP-30, standing for Librascope General Purpose and then Librascope General Precision, is an early off-the-shelf computer. It was manufactured by the Librascope company of Glendale, California (a division of General Precision Inc.), and sold and serviced by the Royal Precision Electronic Computer Company, a joint venture with the Royal McBee division of the Roy

American teleprinter manufacturer

American typewriter manufacturing company

Swedish high-end watch manufacturer

American label manufacturing company

location at which typewriter carriage stops