{"id":433,"date":"2011-10-12T23:56:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T23:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/?p=433"},"modified":"2011-10-13T00:15:34","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T00:15:34","slug":"chinese-typewriter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/chinese-typewriter\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Typewriter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a Japanese made Hanz\/Kanji typewriter in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhs.ox.ac.uk\/\">Oxford Muesum of the History of Science<\/a> today. It seems to be manufactured by a company called Shuangge but I can&#8217;t find any information about them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/chinese_typewriter1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/chinese_typewriter1-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"chinese_typewriter1\" width=\"630\" height=\"787\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/chinese_typewriter1-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/chinese_typewriter1-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/chinese_typewriter1.jpg 1930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-433 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/chinese_typewriter1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/chinese_typewriter1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/chinese_typewriter2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/chinese_typewriter2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/chinese_typewriter3.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/chinese_typewriter3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/chinese_typewriter4.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/chinese_typewriter4-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>There&#8217;s a youtube video which shows the typewriter in action, pretty impressive. Though by my count he&#8217;s getting around 36 Hanz\/Kanji per minute, which even if each symbol is representing a whole word is pretty slow compared to a moderate typing speed of 70 WPM in English.<\/p>\n<p>The device seems to work more liking a printing press than a traditional western typewriter, stamps are picked up from a matrix using a magnet, brushed past some ink and pressed onto the page. It looks likes there are enough stamps for all 2500 standard Kanji, though I couldn&#8217;t see any hiragana\/katakana which indicates this model was designed purely for the Chinese market.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oEe7Qz7UTQQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s another cool video of a different model here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JHJhah1c-K0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a Japanese made Hanz\/Kanji typewriter in the Oxford Muesum of the History of Science today. It seems to be manufactured by a company called Shuangge but I can&#8217;t find any information about them. There&#8217;s a youtube video which shows the typewriter in action, pretty impressive. Though by my count he&#8217;s getting around 36 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1RRoU-6Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}