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Typewriters: Mechanical Brilliance

Stuff You Should Know

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The Shift Key on a Computer Keyboard

Twain handed in his manuscript on the Remington too which we're talking about now but if he had handed in the Scholes and Glidden they would have said why is this guy shouting in everyone all the time it's like life on the Mississippi he should be a little more laid back. The shift key is something that literally shifted everything up the whole carriage shifted up to get what you were looking for. It was a mechanical solution again that lifted it up where the appropriate case of letter would hit that ribbon.

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