manual typewriter
Key-strike printing device
A manual typewriter is a mechanical writing machine powered entirely by the user's fingers striking keys, without electrical assistance.
Each keystroke drives a metal type bar against an inked ribbon to imprint a character on paper.
Manual typewriters dominated office work from the late 1800s until electric typewriters and computers displaced them: She learned to type on her grandmother's manual typewriter.
- platenPrinting press surface
- keysLock-operating instruments
- typingEntering text via keyboard
- hunt and peckVisual, one-key-at-a-time typing
- clackSharp percussive noise
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- obsolete techfloppy disk, VHS, dial-up modem, cassette tape, floppy disks
- Typewriterscarriage, platen, typebar, ink ribbon, spacebar
- writing machinesword processor, stenograph, linotype, monotype, typesetter
- unpoweredhand tools, hand-operated, human-powered, hand crank, hand-cranked
- hand toolsscrewdriver, wrench, hammer, pliers, saw
- Retrovintage, retro, throwback, record players, old-school
manual typewritercomputer
Electronic calculating device
word processor · laptop · desktop computer · smartphone · tablet
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