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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"typewriter"”.
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Kinematic Chain Modelling of Rotary System as Applied to a Selectric Typewriter
… and tilting mechanisms of an IBM Selectric II Typewriter. The chain for the rotation mechanism was used to create a homogeneous transform matrix system that allowed the position of the printing character in a local coordinate system to be represented in the global coordinate system through a …
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A Comparison of the Straight-Copy Skill Scores of Students Who Began Their Training on Electric Typewriters with Students Who Began Training on Non-Electric Typewriters
… one group began their instruction on electric typewriters and the other on manuals; (b) to obtain student opinion concerning electric and manual typewriters.</p><p>The study was conducted during the 1965-1966 school year at the Austin High School, Austin, Minnesota. A total of one hundred …
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The relationship between per cent of frequently-used words and typewritability
… words and the amount of copy produced on a typewriter in a given period.
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Discourse on Cabin 3
… campus. Inside the cabin was the same model typewriter used by the Unabomber to write his manifesto. The typewriter was mechanically connected to the cabin's rear axle so that each letter typed rolled the cabin back in imperceptibly small increments. From late May to early July, the cabin's …
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The relation between syllabic stroke intensity and typewritability
… intensity and the amount of copy produced on the typewriter in a given time. The correlation showed that an increase in syllabic stroke intensity produced a corresponding increase in the number of strokes typed, over the range investigated. This range was from 3.hBh strokes per syllable to h.285 …
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A comparative analysis of letter production on correcting electric typewriters versus text-editing typewriters
… typed on correcting electric and text-editing typewriters, were analyzed. Students typed four business letters, one under each of four conditions: on the correcting electric from machine dictation, on the text-editing from machine dictation, on the correcting electric from longhand, and on· the …
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INPUT-OUTPUT LOGIC AND EQUIPMENT FOR THE M3 COMPUTER
… punch and a 10 characters per second electric typewriter. Due to the inherently slow speed of the peripheral equip-ment buffer registers are used to avoid computer tie-up for longer than necessary. A manual keyboard has been produced to prepare program and data tapes. Programming for the …
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Chinese typewriters speak: the political power of writing machines in 20th-century China
Typewriters have long been recognized as potentially subversive tools. Alphabetic typewriters, in particular, have been regarded as political instruments—states such as the former East Germany and the Soviet Union restricted their ownership, requiring special licenses or banning them outright for …
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right mind-minding: the practice and transmission of Zen and Tantric Buddhist method practices in the poemobjects of Dom Sylvester Houédard, 1960-1975
… of concrete, The Gallery, NUA (2010); The Cosmic Typewriter, The Life and Work of Dom Sylvester Houédard; The South London Gallery (2012); Performing No Thingness, East, NUA (2016). I have also edited some of this material for two monographs: Notes from the Cosmic Typewriter, The Life and Work of …
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Formatting variables and typeface variations of dot-matrix print and their effect on reading comprehension and reading speed
… reading rates of the subjects when compared to typewriter type? A factorial analysis of covariance [p. < .05] was used to analyze reading comprehension; and a two way analysis of variance [p. < .05] was used to analyze reading rates. The findings indicated that typefaces or formatting made no …
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Study of the Structure-Property Relationships That Determine the Effects of Latexes and Starch Containing Latex Emulsions on the Performance of the Barrier Coatings (Sub-coat) for Paper
… during writing. The pressure from a pen or typewriter would help deposit the ink of the carbon paper onto the blank sheet of paper under the original written sheet to create a “carbon copy.” This method did however, have its disadvantages. Not only did it produce a limited number of copies, …
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Problems of the 'Political' in British Avant-Garde Poetry and Poetics, 2003-2012
… through compositional experiments with the typewriter (Olson, 1965; Deleuze & Guattari, 1987; Abramović, 2011), and places emphasis on live performance as crucial to ‘political’ poetry due to its affects. Also provided are case studies of poetry readings given during the research period and …
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Uneasy reading : resistance and revelation in Willem Boshoff's "Verskanste Openbaring"
… of paper; reinserting the same page into his typewriter, layering the language upon itself. This project sets out to "read" the product of Boshoff's performance - a rectangle of superimposed text entitled "Verskanste Openbaring" ("Entrenched Revelation"). Entirely illegible, this page is …
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A follow-up study of the 1967, 1968, and 1969 clerical-secretarial graduates of Lake Region Junior College, Devils Lake, North Dakota, with implications for curriculum revision
… largest number of respondents were the electric typewriter, copying machines, and ten-key adding-listing machines.</p><p>In general, the respondents felt that the training received at lake Region Junior College had adequately prepared them for the world of work. However, they felt that some …
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Social and academic synergies in MIT's Mechanical Engineering department for empowering twentieth-century Chinese leaders
… was responsible for inventing the first Chinese typewriter, doing the earliest mechanical tests on China-native materials such as ramie and bamboo, and was fundamental to the development of the Mechanical Engineering department at MIT's sister school, Tsinghua University in Beijing.
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Enhancing Trust in Reconfigurable Hardware Systems
… important information. Examples such as the typewriter hack involving subversive chips resulting in leakage of keystroke data and hardware backdoors crippling anti-aircraft guns during an attack demonstrate the need to protect all system functions. With more focus on securing a system, trust …
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In the Mouth of the Cave: Subterranean Site-Specific Writing Practices in Britain from William Wordsworth to Katrina Palmer
… In the Cave of Suicession (1974), written on a typewriter in an alluvial tunnel in Derbyshire; Sean Borodale’s twinned works Asylum and Asylum Oedipus (2017–8), recorded on a dictation machine under the Mendips before being returned to the white cube, installed as an enormous cavern of text …
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A survey of word processing centers in the urban corridor of Virginia
… Previous experience in the use of a Selectric typewriter and of a dictation machine was not considered an essential qualification for word processing positions by most word processing employers. 11. Most of the automatic typewriters and dictation units installed in the participating word …