Keyboards
There were may keyboads in the early days.
There was the Sholes, Universal 1879 - 1924,
Ideal, Automatic 1881, Fitch 1886, Prouty
in 1888, Dvorak, Standard. Not all of them were on
the portable. Pictured below are the Universal
and Standard keyboards.
This keyboard is more familiar, but there
have been some changes made and keys added
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The keylever linked to typebar mechanism was
invented by a Frenchman, Xavier Projean in 1833.
This type of mechanism provides quick key
action and visible impressions. It is the basic system
still used in this type of machine
today.
A. E. Beach has been credited with inventing the method of
type striking at a common center in
1856, which improved the keylever linked to typebar mechanism
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