Typewriter

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Afrikaans: 'n Tikmasien is 'n toestel wat gebruik word om om letters op papier mee te druk.

Deutsch: Eine Schreibmaschine ist ein mechanisches oder elektromechanisches Gerät, das die Tastatureingabe ihres Benutzers als Text zu Papier bringt.

English: A typewriter is a machine for printing letters on paper.

Español: Una máquina de escribir (typewriter en inglés) es una máquina para escribir cartas y documentos en papel mediante mecanismos mecánicos, electromecánicos o electrónicos.

Eesti: Kirjutusmasin seade teksti kandmiseks paberile tähemärkide kaupa

Français : La machine à écrire est une machine permettant d'écrire des documents avec des caractères imprimés.

Polski: Maszyna do pisania to mechaniczne, elektromechaniczne lub elektroniczne urządzenie posiadające klawisze, które naciskane powodują wydrukowanie określonych znaków (zwykle na papierze).

[edit] Early typewriters

Patent drawing of prototype Sholes & Glidden typewriter, 1868.	Sholes & Glidden typewriter, 1876	Mignon 3 German index typewriter, made 1923-1934	An old and dusty Smith Premier Typewriter.
An old and less dusty Smith Premier Typewriter.	The Lambert, with a unique round keyboard, first made in 1902.	World model 2 index typewriter, made starting 1886.	Edison Mimeograph typewriter (not connected to Thomas Edison), starting 1892.
Edison Mimeograph typewriter, 1892.		Charles Thurber's Patent Printer, 1843	John Pratt's Pterotype, 1867
Patent prototype of Sholes, Glidden, Soulé typewriter, June 23, 1868.	Type cylinder from Munsen typewriter, 1890-1912	Blickensderfer 5, produced beginning 1895.	Blickensderfer 5, produced beginning 1895
Elliot-Fisher book typewriter, 1903	Writing ball keyboard

[edit] Later mechanical typewriters

The popular "Underwood"	Sholes-Glidden	Hammond	Smith Premier
Bar-Lock	Underwood	Adler	Halda
Oliver	Ideal Seidel und Naumann typewriter (Germany)	German-manufactured typewriter, circa 1930	Adler typewriter (Germany)
Adler typewriter - keyboard	Adler typewriter	Adler typewriter - close view on mechanical parts	1930s Underwood used by writer William Faulkner
Triumph "gabriele 25" Hebrew typewriter	Valentine	Italian Olivetti Lettera 22 typewriter, 1950	Underwood Touch-Master 5, early 1960s
Underwood portable, 1970s	Old typewriter	Continental

[edit] Electric typewriters

IBM Selectric, USA, 1961

IBM Electronic Composer Typewriter

[edit] Typing

An Underwood typewriter showing its QWERTY layout	Singer Galli-Curci types a letter, early 20th century	US Navy typing class, 1917	Typist in Sweden, 1918
Masked typist during influenza pandemic, 1918	Typist, 1979	Chimpanzee with typewriter; illustration of joke/proverb.