the typewriter has greatly influenced the business commercial and economic progress of the nation today typewriters unable women and girls to perform military and industrial services as important as those performed by men through the courtesy of the smithsonian institution we show the development of a typewriter starting with the bir typewriter in addition to the standard machines now in use modern business has created needs for special type writers such as wide carriage machines justifying typewriters with which to make straight right margins book type adjusted spacing machines which turn out to copy like this special forms writers calculating machine type writers pen cards punch typewriters which turn out cards like there is today millions of typos that their machines speed the business and war activity of our nation their task is complicated by a typewriter shortage and a shortage of experienced personnel unfortunately many typos cannot work rapidly and accurately to turn out more and better work on the office from beginners and average to nagar present typists must acquire superior usable typing skills this film will demonstrate and explain the techniques essential for severe your typing one way to learn a better or the best way of doing anything is to watch and analyze the skill of an expert if your skills are patterned after those of an expert you can be your superior typist missler northampton who won eleven international awards and sat eight international records and typing on machine transcription will show us the typewriting scale which enables her to set these records to become an expert type but it is essential to master the correct typing technique how do you type is more important than what you type if you are there after the correct method of typing your typing will continue to improve but if you learn to type perfect copy slowly with one finger you will continue to be a one finger type but if you want to become an expert type but learn to work like one you should know how to operate all make typewriter look at the various machines this is the all of these machines are alike in many respects where there are differences i will point them out on the individual machine the first essential proper tightening technique is good posture it should be long enough so that your feet breath flat on the floor one foot ahead of the other to give you proper balance if your chair is too high poor position one thing around shoulders comfort warily nine or ten inches from your typewriter a little to the right of the center of your machine let your upper arm pain freely and comfortably your elbow should be just below the level of the spacebar more type of but he gets caught by a net very tension and weight motion then by anything else of course this is tiring your forearm wrist and back of the hand should slide up word parallel to the sled of the keyboard keep your hands and fingers in a natural easy working position your hands into your lap and relax look at your hand when you want rest or sleep your hands do not look like a head or a bit but like  with that changing the position of your hands and fingers thanks your hands on the keyboard things are kept down wrist slap that your typing position with your fingers down the second guy grows he your wrist should be comfortably down and in line with your forearm home close to the keyboard and brain this position enables your fingers to reach easily over the key and eliminate tension you should have almost no movement in your wrist and for unnecessary line with your forearm than the back of your hand parallel to the slant of the keyboard typing most and are confined to your fingers colon l k and j r the guy he's the key are pressed by the fingers of your left hand by the fingers of your right hand the standard of the key if you strike the keys with your finger nails when you strike upper or lower ropes he return the fingers quickly to the home finally there is no air time left between throat and the person is typing as fast as he or she  through develop your finger agility and control your fingers of each hand to strike the keys on the three rows in an alternate figure eight pattern and with the two ends finger