Here is a selection of sketches of typewriters I did just for laughs. They're from the mid 1900s and are black or charcoal gray except for the groovy 1960s Yugoslavian model which is pink! It also came in mint green. The keyboards used t… Read on blog or Reader John Manders' Blog Read on blog or Reader More typewriters By johnmanders on September 9, 2024 Here is a selection of sketches of typewriters I did just for laughs. They're from the mid 1900s and are black or charcoal gray except for the groovy 1960s Yugoslavian model which is pink! It also came in mint green. The keyboards used the QWERTY set-up (except the Yugoslavian model which has QWERTZ). It was designed (by Christopher Latham Sholes in the 1870s) to keep the most-used letters apart from each other. The arrangement kept fast typists from making the type-bars collide or get tangled with each other. https://www.quora.com/Why-do-we-use-the-QWERTY-keyboard-as-standard Everybody got used to QWERTY, that's why our computer keyboards still use it. Just like moveable type, our compact 26-letter alphabet that we inherited/adapted from the Phoenicians makes typewriters possible. https://johnmanders.wordpress.com/2021/01/08/twenty-two-little-letters/ Back to the beginning of The Western Civ User's Guide to Reading & Writing. Don't forget: I wrote another Western Civ User's Guide! Back to the beginning of The Western Civ User's Guide to Time & Space. Comment Like You can also reply to this email to leave a comment.

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