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Abstract. This chapter argues for a reexamination of Chinese/American novelist Lin Yutang and his widely publicized efforts to invent and mass-produce an electric Chinese typewriter during the 1930s and 1940s.
22 de nov. de 2017 · In The Chinese Typewriter: A History, Thomas S. Mullaney offers the first of two volumes exploring the global history of Chinese information technologies by focusing on the development of the Chinese typewriter. Challenging easy narratives and offering digestible insight into technological concepts, this is an incredible work of scholarship, writes Ed Jones, that is as much a history of the ...
1 de ene. de 2017 · The earliest Chinese typewriters, Mullaney tells us, were figments of popular imagination, sensational accounts of twelve-foot keyboards with 5,000 keys. One of the first Chinese typewriters ...
4 de jun. de 2019 · Extract. The instruction booklet for the Royal #10, the machine Rosalind Russell favored in His Girl Friday, begins by noting that the operations of a typewriter are so well known that no instructions are necessary.By the early years of the twentieth century, the interface between the fingers and the QWERTY keyboard were part of the muscle memory of modernity, and not just in the English ...
The Chinese Typewriter: A History. By Thomas S. Mullaney. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2017. xiv, 481 pp. ISBN: 9780262036368 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). - Volume 77 Issue 4. Last updated 27/06/24: Online ordering is currently unavailable due to technical issues.
8 de ago. de 2017 · Thomas Mullaney describes a fascinating series of experiments, prototypes, failures, and successes in the century-long quest for a workable Chinese typewriter. The earliest Chinese typewriters, Mullaney tells us, were figments of popular imagination, sensational accounts of twelve-foot keyboards with 5,000 keys.
The creation of a Chinese typewriter therefore became a ‘civilisational trial’ for a country that feared ‘functioning in slow motion’ in the face of global acceleration. Mullaney’s tale is a patchwork of histories from across the globe. The first chapters are made up of forgotten ‘scrap-notes of history’. US corporations such as ...
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