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Typewriters: Mechanical Brilliance

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The DIVORAC Is the One That Really Has a Lot of Passionate Proponents

Dr. August DIVORAC was the inventor like he said and I think it was 1936 specifically but also did a lot of studying of the English language to come up with his typing method. He put the most used consonants on the right side and the vowels on the left, so you were able to type many more words staying in that home position. That's typically the middle of the middle row with the absolute middle two keys not touched but the other eight keys are touched by your fingers. Both of your thumbs are on the space bar that's right now.

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