The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-03-06
VARIETY OF 1hE TFPEwR1rERs.
New 1anGunGcs Constantly BcinE Conquered
by an Amertcnn 1nvcHtion.

New 1auruaGcs Constantly BcinE Conquered
by an Amertcnn lnvcEtion.
The typewriter 10 ono American product
which has never suffered q foreign boycott.
The click of the American typewriter Is heard
around the world. Tho tourist finds 1t turning
up in all sorts OF out-os-the.way corners. from
Iceland to Van Dieman's Land. With tho
Dongola and Ashanti expeditions 1t has penc-
tratcd into the heart Of the African wilderness;
with Lieut.. Peary it found its way to the
Arctic regions; the Russian Government has
sent 1t oil through Siberia; 1t is to DO
found In the homes Of the missionaries in India.
The Gar Of Russia has n richly engraved, gold
plated. white enamellcd, ivory-keyed type
writer for writing both English and Russian.
Queen Victoria hos ono in her household. and
80 have the Queen Regent OF Spain and The
khedivc of Egypt. In the wreck of the battle.
ship Maine was found u typewriter. and should
the Russian Eastern squadrop's flagship sud.
denly sink in tho Yellow Sea an American type
writer would DO found in the Captains cabin.
The universal use Of the typewriter is due to
its easy adoption to almost uny language capa-
BILE of being printed. Typewriters have been
mado TO write Greek, German, Hebrew, Siamese.
Telegu and Russian. The accents, so important
q part OF other languages than English, are
written with dead keys, which do no: move the
cylinder carrying the paper. The dead key de-
vice has recently been ingcniously applied in
solving n difficult problem in typewriter
construction. An English missionary in
India, DR.. JACOB Chamberlain Mt NADIA.
r.nol,s N,5ros PERSISTENCE u,shi,r to
translate the Scriptures for the natives, wrote
to any American typewriter company asking If
q typewriter could be made to write the Telegu
language. He had been using an English writ
ing typewriter, md one day. when it was
smashed by plaster falling in his bungalow. the
idea OF nTelegu typewriter occurred 10 him.
The Tclegu language is peculiar in that every
o""raets t'pFesehls sS,aoie. oh'iS'iohars
resolved the language into 2lo characters. but
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an0so mon = stanSard Ia,ho,rd Tha ,rna.
written words look like a Chinese laundryman's
efforts. n confused mass OF curlycucs. spots,
FOUND bis Teieru So yainsbIIe IN
| Christianizing thc heathcns that other mission.
aries sent orders for similar machines. With
tributed in duplicate among the natives.
An English student OF Hebrew sent an in
writer. None had ever been MADE but n iHe.
brew keyboard was planned ana tho order filled.
Hebrew II munt he rcmembcrcd IL written
from right to left and from tho bottom Of The
page TO the ton. The Hebrew ypeWritor made
for the student has the mechanism OF the ordi-
have S6p" a eostly 70 u natS SiHF'eTT The 10 o wSnsr
Consequently has to write backward. Should
Upper ri 5ae1 %Oa'e corner He ~u to tho he w opposite dten The
only German letters in the Goyernment business.
For several years GERMAN typewriters with
Roman letters have been in use. nut to meet the