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Mingkwai Typewriter is invented by Lin Yutang on May 22, 1947. It is 14” (36 cm) wide, 18” (46 cm) deep, 9” (23 cm) tall of slightly bigger than common typewriters. It uses a huge cylinder to store ten thousands of characters, a motor to drive, a character indexing method by looking at the top and bottom with confirming via screen (or “magic eye”). Unfortunately, its mass production isn’t achieved as its sophisticated structure. Now X-PIN and others are reengraving.
Images taken from referenced patents relative to Mingkwai Typewriter.
Patents about Mingkwai Typewriter in United States, United Kingdom, France, Federal Germany and Switzerland, characters table, excerpt from Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage and Lin Yutang Documentary (w/ Traditional Chinese & English Subtitles).
- Popularization: In typewriter era, how do we type a Chinese Character? [X-PIN]
- A simple reproduction: [Student He] We made a Chinese typewriter...
- Printing Cylinder Unit: Mingkwai Typewriter - Characters
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