Abstract
IN this little book the author dissects the typewriter of commerce, and in a series of chapters shows how in different machines each function is performed. There are fifty-eight figures. The descriptions and figures are clear, and the book should fulfil its purpose. It is a little difficult, however, to see what this purpose is, for ingenious as the mechanism of typewriters may be, it is all visible, and anyone with any sense of mechanics can gee it all for himself and understand it, and, moreover, in the larger towns at any rate, there is no difficulty in finding all the better-known examples, and willing expositors in the shops in which they are sold. Still, it is well that the subject should be dealt with systematically.
Les Machines à écrire.
By J. Rousset. Pp. 177. Encyclopédie Scientifique des Aide-Mémoire. (Paris: Gauthier-Villars and Masson et Cie., n.d.) Price 2.50 francs.
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Les Machines à écrire . Nature 87, 277–278 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/087277d0
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