On This Day in Typewriter History: The Lean Green Machine
PART 234
Now here's a wonderful opportunity for the Fallow Fields Writing Machine Manufacturing Company. (I know I keep saying that, but one day Peter Baker will make one, or Richard Polt will summons one up by "clicking a button, making Google Patents interact magically with a 3D printer, and
have these inventions delivered to my home", a notion Peter described as a "succinct expression of the Fallow Fields business model".)
On this day (January 13) in 1891, Boonton, New Jersey, watchmaker John Jay Cisco Green was issued with a patent for this typewriter:
Green was born in Hanover, New York, in October 1850. He wrote of this idea: "In operating this machine, the keyboard is depressed against the strength of the
springs until the striking-bar comes in contact with the type-disk; but only one
type can come in contact with the said bar at a time, owing to the aperture or
notch in the pressure-arm. When the keyboard is released, it is elevated or
returned to its normal position by the said springs. The paper-roller is
provided at one end with a knob, by which it may be rotated to form the spaces
between the lines."
That's quite a fascinating design. There's so many interesting designs that I see on your page, that I wonder if some bored engineer is likely to attempt to actually create them, much like I've seen with some of Da Vinci's plans and ideas from his sketches.
ReplyDeleteHeck I would settle for an animated virtual model of some of these.
ReplyDeleteOh and I always appreciate a shout-out. Fallow Fields wants to revive old plays, operas and books as well.