Modern Chinese Typewriter
The Chinese language is picturesque and difficult, and so are Chinese typewriters. Almost as big as dining tables, they look rather like a giant cash register, and are worked electrically on an intricate system known as the “four-digit.” But now a modern Chinese typewriter has been designed, the owner, and indeed the designer, of the only one in existence, being. Dr Lin Yutang, who has just been appointed Head of the Arts and Letters Division of the Unesco Secretariat.
The Chinese typewriter looks very much like the machines we are familiar with, writing from left to right instead of downwards. The main problem of the symbolic nature of’ the language is solved by making each key represent a component part of a character. Then, in order to type the whole character, the necessary combination of keys must be pressed down at the same time.
It is hoped that an American firm will produce great numbers of these modern typewriters for the Chinese.
Weight can be measured so closely that the mark of a pencil on a piece of paper is easily registered.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 86, 13 May 1949, Page 5
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185Modern Chinese Typewriter Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 86, 13 May 1949, Page 5
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