Chinese typewriter information:

Case Study - Chinese Typewriter

37 pages including patent numbers 2,412,777 and 2,613,795 with many
illustrations of Chung-Chin Kao and L. Yutang Chinese Typewriters as
well as other illustrations and a Bibliography of some 8 publications
used in the study.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge 39, Massachusetts

Prepared by:

Andrew T. Ling
Research Assistant
Creative Engineering Laboratory
Mechanical Engineering Department

Perhaps they also did a study of the Japanese typewriter at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Jim
<jdax@...>

Mark wrote:
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> From: Mark Bailey <roamineagle@...>
> To: TYPEWRITERS@onelist.com
> Subject: [TYPEWRITERS] Re: Typewriter for Japanese language
> Date: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 8:02 PM
>
> From: Mark Bailey <roamineagle@...>
>
> Darryl Rehr wrote:
>
> Does anyone out there know anything about the big Toshiba typewriter
for
> Japanese language? The characters are on a rotating drum. When was
it
> made, how widely used, etc?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Darryl Rehr
>
>
> I don't know about the Toshiba device, but there is a short account
in Bruce
> Bliven's _The Wonderful Writing Machine_ of a machine for writing in
Chinese,
> developed by "...the author Lin Yutang..."(Blivens 215). Japanese
consists
> mainly of adapted Chinese character forms, with the the addition of
characters
> called "kana" to fill in gaps caused by linguistic changes and the
incursion
> of slang and foreign terms; I would therefore hazard a guess that the
Toshiba
> device is probably a derivative of Lin Yutang's typewriter.
>
> The way that the Lin device worked was that he first cut the number
of
> characters provided down to around five thousand basic forms, from
which, by
> overtypes and changing out other types, one could produce the other,
less-used
> characters. These characters were mounted on drums, which is my
reason for
> thinking that the Toshiba device is a Lin Yutang typewriter adapted
for
> Japanese. I have no proof, of course, but it seems reasonable, given
your
> description.
>
> MWBailey
>
>
>
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