Curators on Camera: An iconic Chinese typewriter
Channel: British Library
Date: 2019-04-24

'There are no keys, instead there is a tray bed of over 2,000 different pieces of type'

Can you imagine a typewriter for a language that uses thousands of characters in its writing? Curator Emma Harrison demonstrates a typewriter designed for the Chinese script. Find out more about the Double Pigeon Typewriter on our History of Writing website: https://www.bl.uk/history-of-writing/articles/the-double-pigeon-chinese-typewriter

This typewriter is on display in our Writing: Making Your Mark exhibition which explores the evolution of writing from hieroglyphs to emojis. Book tickets: https://www.bl.uk/writing

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