A typewriter is like a keyboard without the computer. The computer keyboard is based on the typewriter. To use it you put the paper in the top bale and rolled it so the keys could hit the paper. There was a ribbon of ink between the paper and the keys, so when you hit a key the typewriter ribbon hit the paper with the letter inked. If correction was needed the paper had to be changed.
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the number of characters per inch
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Elite
Font sizes on a typewriter range from 8pt-14pt.
Some words you can use with "typewriter" are keyboard, ribbon, keys, and vintage.
The word typewriter is a singular, common, concrete noun, a thing. Typewriter can be used as the subject or the object of a sentence or phrase. Example sentence:The typewriter is becoming obsolete because the computer and word processing are becoming the norm.
The typewriter ribbon is the store of ink for the typewriter. When a typewriter key is pushed the letter springs up and hits the ribbon - pushing the ink onto the page in the shape of the letter.
the typewriter that kerouac used fromm 66 until his death was a Hermes 3000 manual typewriter that sold for $22,500.
The typewriter was invented by Christopher Sholes in 1868, so I imagine not too long after that people began to use them.
Dorothy Parker used a Corona typewriter. She was known to be very attached to her typewriter and even took it with her everywhere she went.
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A typewriter is basically a predecessor top the modern printer, so yes, it uses paper.
Theodore Roosevelt
"Typewriter". Enthusiasts sometimes use the slang term "Typer" for short. I've never seen the expression "typer writer", but it could be a nickname to mean someone who writes on a typewriter.
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