Stuff You Should Know

Typewriters: Mechanical Brilliance

Nov 22, 2022
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
Stuffy Should Know Listeners Have Donated One Million Dollars?
01:40 • 2min
3
Donate $5 to Break the Cycle of Poverty in Guatemala
03:21 • 2min
4
Count Your Donations, Army?
05:08 • 2min
5
The Typewriter Was a Game Changer
07:33 • 2min
6
Typewriters - The Greatest Generation
09:38 • 2min
7
How to Use a Typewriter for the Chilens
11:32 • 2min
8
I Love a Typewriter
13:56 • 5min
9
Typewriters - A Little Rat's Nest
18:43 • 2min
10
Typewriter - The First Typewriter in the World
20:33 • 2min
11
The Early Typewriters
22:27 • 2min
12
Then in 1872 the Remington Company Sold Their Shares in a Typewriter to a Guy Named James Dinsmore
24:50 • 2min
13
The Scholes and Glidden Typewriter
26:32 • 2min
14
The Shift Key on a Computer Keyboard
28:02 • 2min
15
The QWERTY Keyboard
29:47 • 3min
16
The QWERTY Legend
32:42 • 2min
17
The DIA TENSOR Is a Better Keyboard Layout Than the QWERTY One
34:16 • 2min
18
The DIVORAC Is the One That Really Has a Lot of Passionate Proponents
36:03 • 2min
19
Do You Type Properly?
37:59 • 3min
20
How Typing Changed Everything
41:21 • 4min
21
The Underwood Typewriter
45:20 • 3min
22
Modernization
48:45 • 2min
23
The Select Trick That Changed Everything
50:28 • 3min
24
The Difference Between Electric and Electronic Typewriters
53:18 • 2min
25
Typewriters - The Secretaries of the Future
55:25 • 2min
26
Personalized License Plates
57:03 • 2min
27
How to Shorten a License Plate to the Metal
58:48 • 4min