keyboard waffle iron
Saturday, December 6, 2014
cortez wilson peters
"Perhaps the last great world manual typewriter champion was Cortez Wilson Peters, who reached speeds of 180 words a minute over periods of up to 12 minutes, or 15 key strokes a second. Peters was born in Maryland on December 23, 1906. He operated business schools in Washington DC, Chicago and Baltimore and appeared on television shows such as What's my Line? and Ripley's Believe it or Not (on which he typed 100 flawless words a minute while outdoors in subfreezing temperatures and wearing fingerless mittens)."
Wow. World's champion portable typist. That's an awesome title.
And look at that Royal poster in the background!
Another champ aids Army and Navy. Cortez W. Peters, world's champion portable typist, is shown with ten late model standard size typewriters which he turned over to the government to aid the drive for 600,000 machines for the Army and Navy. The typewriters were taken from three business schools which Mr. Peters operates in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Maryland, and Chicago, Illinois.
Cortez Peters again, with trophy.
Aids Army and Navy typewriter drive. Cortez W. Peters, world's champion portable typist, recently turned in ten late model standard size typewriters which he turned over to the government to aid the drive for 600,000 machines for the Army and Navy. Mr. Peters operates three business schools in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Maryland, and Chicago, Illinois.
Friday, December 5, 2014
flora payne whitney miller
[Flora Payne Whitney Miller, three-quarter length portrait, seated at typewriter, facing front]
Thursday, December 4, 2014
explaining qwerty
"Why are the keys on a typewriter or computer keyboard arranged in such a strange way? Why not in a much more sensible fashion? If you've ever typed quickly on a mechanical typewriter, you'll know the reason: the type hammers move up and down so quickly that they can collide and jam together. Then you have to reach into the guts of the machine to disentangle them, getting ink and oil all over yourself in the process. To reduce the risk of that happening, the designer of the first popular typewriter, Christopher Latham Sholes (1819–1890), rearranged the keyboard so letters often-used were spaced widely apart. For example, if you type the word P-R-O-B-A-B-L-Y very quickly, your fingers have to keep leaping from one side of the keyboard to the other as you go from one key to the next. That gives each type hammer time to fall back down and get out of the way of the next hammer that's about to rise up, reducing the risk of a jam. Now computer keyboards are entirely electronic, there's no reason at all to keep the QWERTY keyboard layout. We keep it because most people know it—and for no other reason." --Chris Woodford, http://www.explainthatstuff.com/typewriter.html
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