After more than half a century, a unique Chinese writer appears

“In the typewriter, you discover who you are.” Or if there is a unique machine missing for decades, the same thing can be said to find one as well.

In January, Jennifer Felix and her husband Nelson coincided with elements in the cellar of Jennifer’s grandfather in New York. They have found a typewriter as they had never seen before, with Chinese keys. Nelson posted some pictures in a group on Facebook called what is the typewriter machine? “From my internet search, it looks like a Chinese Mingkway,” he wrote. “I can’t find ever here in the United States. Is it worth anything? It weighs a ton!”

The resounding enthusiasm was provided through the comments, as it turned out that the device was already Mingkwai – called “clear and fast” – the only one of its kind in the world.

Missing for more than half a century, this discovery prompted many messages from people all over the world who want to buy or place the device in museums. He is now in a group of Stanford Libraries.

He invented in 1947 by the writer, translator and linguist SoftThe typewriter was the first compressed concept that includes a keyboard that could produce a letter more than 80,000 people. This has been accomplished by creating a kind of sorting and research method.

“Lynn destroyed Chinese perceptions into more basic components of strokes, shapes and the ranks of the characters in linear arrange Made in China magazine.

The keyboard consists of 72 options, which can be combined to create desired characters. Chen continues:

By clicking on one of the 36 supreme letters ingredients and one of the 28 lower components keys at the same time, you will find the device up to eight interview letters. The user can see the candidates through a special display window on the device, which Lin called his “magic eye”, and identify the relevant numerical key.

Carl I says. Chrome the only preliminary model known in Minguai, Stanford report. Lynn was unable to raise enough commercial attention to the expensive machine production, so he sold the initial model and rights of Mergenthaleer Linotype, where Jennifer Felix’s grandfather was working as mechanisms. The writer’s machine has never entered production, and eventually disappeared – so far.

Stanford plans to use the unique machine for research, exhibitions and academic programs. “I cannot be happier to allow the supervision of this unusual first model for scholarships,” says Reagan Murphy Kao, Director of the East Asian Library.