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adapted so that they could be written on a typewriter, and therefore would possess the same advantage. Shorthand systems can also be classified according...

machine, shorthand machine, stenograph or steno writer is a specialized chorded keyboard or typewriter used by stenographers for shorthand use. In order...

The Sholes and Glidden typewriter (also known as the Remington No. 1) was the first commercially successful typewriter. Principally designed by the American...

the process of writing in shorthand Stenotype, a specialized chorded keyboard or typewriter used by stenographers for shorthand use Stenographer or Stenotypist...

alphabet. The phrase is commonly used for touch-typing practice, testing typewriters and computer keyboards, displaying examples of fonts, and other applications...

linguists in the 1950s to solve the input inefficiency of the Chinese typewriter, as the typing process involved finding and selecting thousands of logographic...

(contractions) and even logograms were developed, creating a system much more like shorthand. Today, there are braille codes for over 133 languages. In English, some...

Speedwriting is the trademark under which three versions of a shorthand system were marketed during the 20th century. The original version was designed...

derived from) x. Because of the very close similarity of the typewriter apostrophe and typewriter double quote to prime and double prime, substitution in informal...

(along with shorthand speed) was an important secretarial qualification, and typing contests were popular and often publicized by typewriter companies as...

already using typewriters with QWERTY keyboards to "copy" received messages, and at the time it made more sense to build a typewriter that could generate...

is a person who types, a clerical worker who writes documents, using a typewriter. Typist may also refer to: Data entry clerk, someone who types data into...

text from 1880. The instruction manual of the Blickensderfer model 5 typewriter (c. 1896) appears to refer to the symbol as the "number mark". Some early-20th-century...

QWERTY design is based on a layout included in the Sholes and Glidden typewriter sold via E. Remington and Sons from 1874. QWERTY became popular with the...

achievement in typewriter operating immediately attracted wide attention. Theodore C. Rose, Vice-President of the International Convention of Shorthand Writers...

number's use during the American Civil War era in the 92 Code of telegraphic shorthand, where it signified the end of a transmission and that it found further...

Reginald J. G. Dutton (1886–1970) who initially ran a shorthand college promoting Dutton Shorthand (a geometric script), then offered a mail order (correspondence)...

unskilled workers. In the 20th century, with the spread of the typewriter, shorthand saw competition from steno-typing. Typing thus became the prerogative...

Typing is the process of writing or inputting text by pressing keys on a typewriter, computer keyboard, mobile phone, or calculator. It can be distinguished...

full-character width space, with typefaces monospaced. In some cases a typewriter keyboard did not include an exclamation point (!), which could otherwise...