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    The Blickensderfer typewriter was invented by George Canfield Blickensderfer (1850–1917) and patented on April 12, 1892. Blickensderfer was a nephew of...
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    electric typewriter was produced by the Blickensderfer Manufacturing Company, of Stamford, Connecticut, in 1902. Like the manual Blickensderfer typewriters, it...
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    September 22, 2010, at the Wayback Machine The Blickensderfer typewriter, designed by George Canfield Blickensderfer in 1892, was known for its novel keyboard...
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    keyboard layouts. AZERTY QWERTY QZERTY German keyboard layout Blickensderfer typewriter Dvorak keyboard layout Neo, an optimized German keyboard layout...
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  • bookkeeping text from 1880. The instruction manual of the Blickensderfer model 5 typewriter (c. 1896) appears to refer to the symbol as the "number mark"...
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    rubber (later light metal); and the Blickensderfer typewriter of 1893 which used a type wheel. The early Blickensderfer's "Ideal" keyboard was also non-QWERTY...
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  • The most frequent letters are placed on the home row of the Blickensderfer typewriter, the Dvorak keyboard layout, Colemak and other optimized layouts...
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    typed on the same typewriter, resurrecting a capability which had been pioneered by typewriters such as the Hammond and Blickensderfer in the late 19th...
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    Simplified Keyboard. In 1893, George Blickensderfer had developed a keyboard layout for the Blickensderfer typewriter model 5 that used the letters DHIATENSOR...
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    invented the stenotype. His nephew George Canfield Blickensderfer later invented the blickensderfer typewriter. Zachos' daughter Helena Zachos continued his...
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