A STANDARD TYPEWRITER.

Progress, Volume I, Issue 9, 2 July 1906, Page 245

A STANDARD TYPEWRITER.

much figuring to do, as the whole work is before the operator and can be quickly scanned to the last word written. For cleaning the type in this machine, no extra attachment or circular brush is needed. As shown in Fig. 2 the faces of the type, when at rest, are turned upward and outward all ready to be cleaned. They are all cleaned collectively, not one at a time, with an ordinary brush in a few minutes. The Universal keyboard is employed with two shifts, thus lessening the mental, and increasing the mechanical, work of the operator. The machine is constructed on the principle that 95 per cent, of all writing is done with small, or lower-case letters, and to reach the remaining 5 per cent, it is better, both mechanically and opera tively, to use two shift keys than to double or triple the total number of keys and size of keyboard. The Oliver has 28 keys, and prints 84 characters. In Great Britain it is supplied to H. M. Government and to the School Board Offices, and quite recently, in a competition for supplying typewriters to the Italian State Railways, when a Technical Commission was appointed and twenty-nine different manufacturers machines were submitted to various tests, the award was given to the Oliver typewriter.

Professor Haswell, Professor of Biology in the Sydney University, is conducting a sea-bed exploration. Two dredges were let down 2000 fathoms 55 miles off the coast, and failed to touch the bottom. A number of interesting specimens were obtained.