Roosevelt Standard | 1936-03-19 | Page 7 | Nipponese Typists Have but 2,000 Characters to Master

nipponese T typists have but 2000 characters to master the nipponese manipulators of typewriters have haie to struggle with a n keyboard of 2000 0 characters to be picked out by hand the slugs have individual compartments in a sliding tray the stenographer teno grapher must press a knob in picking out these individual aa signs ns of the ul III forms characters which once were pictured have been reduced to their simplest forms on the typewriter and now represent ideas only when P placed laced in sound and thought sequence when the knob 15 move moved j directly over the selected character pressure Is exerted A metal arm plis pushes hes across a tiny ink roller and ag against adust the paper which Is rolled on a drum the drum shifts and revolves as aa the letter progresses cleveland plain dealer