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And I thought my hunting and pecking was slow

I found a quite rusty SN 23250 Oliver #2 that works usably, which is great. Luckily there is a small bit of the nickel plating that was saved from rust by overzealous application of oil 100 years ago 🙂. Your example is amazing for a 125 year old machine.

Why did basically the entire world except China and sorta Japan switch to letters? This is why

Now imagine if that same design carried over to keyboards after computers took off

I love how they kept their beautiful writing system throughout the technical hurdles.

Is that a perfect way to learn Kanji?!

I love your videos! Is your collection available to the public to view, or is it a private-only collection?

weird

I'm sorry but this honestly is obsolete. The design is interesting but the other typewriters are kinda more quicker than this

How much characters are in that thing?

"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"

How fast can a secretary write with this one

Where do I can’t one of those?

The phrase "Chinese typewriter" is an older joke in engineering referring to something extremely complicated, but this actually looks like a pretty simple concept. One button, one hammer. A clever arrangement with Japanese elegance.

ASMR??

Unironically the easiest way I’ve seen Japanese being typed.

Love this video. I have a chance to buy one. Did you make the rubber pad? Is there any info about the rubber pad anywhere?

it's beautiful but simply a nightmare that we had to keep doing like this until 80s.

Bruh

Love it 😁

I think I'm turning Japanese

I think that using a typewriter is better because the Chinese syllables are used directly instead of using Latin letters as pinyin.

That font is quite nice.

Awesome! 😎

Probably why everythink was written with paintbrushes lol

I found one of these at a thrift/antique store about 5-10 years ago. The store owner had a price tag that was close to $1,000.00. She didn't sell things on ebay so I offered to list it and split the profits. We accepted the domestic bid for $8,300.00 We were both happy! :)

My God, finally I found this video manual kanji typing writter

세종대왕님 감사합니다

Something about japanese product design really resonates with me. Things are ordered and formed in a way that to me is very organic, harmonious and clean. All the elements work together to form the total aesthetic. I find it all over the place across various products and even the things that make up the products themselves. Somehow too, written and spoken japanese also follow this philosophy. I really admire that.

Typewriter but in hard difficulty.

The Chinese writer Lin yutang once built a typewriter himself, the machine makes typing 90;000 Chinese characters possible, using a unique combinatory system. The inventor of the machine went bankrupt for building it, an American company named Carl E. Krum was commissioned to build the prototype, only finding out that no one was willing to finance the mass production of it because of the high manufacture cost. The prototype was lost when the author moved from one house to another. If only could rebuild the machine, it would be great to see an analog machine for type Chinese, the design was truly ingenious.

Can there even be that many kanji without okurigana in Japanese sentences?

I wish I could see this in slow motion!

Its a catastrofy

Wow 😮

How come Korean typewriter look and operate like american typewriters? Is Japanese writing that complicated? L

was it sold ?

seems a lot slower than other typwriters, or does the language have a trick to it?

Reads: YOU ARE FIRED McFly !!!

There must be a story to Japanese typewriters, quite a challenge to create such a machine!

The Toshiba Typewriter Model BW-2112 is a fascinating piece of technology, particularly notable for its capacity to type in multiple languages, including Japanese, Chinese, and English. Made in the late 1940s, this typewriter is distinctive due to its keyboard, which comprises over 1,000 characters​​​​. The operation of the BW-2112 is unique compared to modern typewriters or keyboards. Characters are selected by manually rotating a cylinder and moving it upwards. This action aligns the required character with an index indicator, facilitating its selection. Upon pressing the key of the printer, the type thread is pressed upwards from the cylinder to print the character on the paper​​​​. This design is a significant departure from the "Western-style" keyboard and represents an advanced stage in typewriter technology of that era, especially considering the multilingual capability and the large number of characters it could produce​​. This typewriter is an exceptional example of ingenuity in adapting the typewriter model to accommodate the complexities of languages with extensive character sets. twistedsifter.com/videos/rare-japanese-typewriter-by-toshiba/#:~:text=Check%20out%20this%20rare%20Japanese,made%20in%20the%20late%201940s

imagine being the person making the font for this

Needs law stenographer redesign! 😅 jk.

Cool

Makes you appreciate only having 26 letters to type !

Someone have an idea how Ethiopian typewriter machines used to work? I have serious curiosity bit I don't find information 😅. By the way very interesting this japanese typewriter machine

어찌보면 중국어 타자기와 더 심하네...

incredible.

A hybrid of a tablet and stylus, an IBM Selectric (without the electric lol), and a vintage manual typewriter! 😁 In all seriousness, WOW, so fascinating and so cool! Also, it's CUTE!!! I mean... Mignon!!! 😂

I had just remembered that ever since my grandmother taught me how to use a typewriter more than 20 years ago, I had a question about how a Japanese typewriter would work, and now thanks to RUclips I know the answer.