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Keyboard - Answers tool primary used by administrative professionals to facilitate document production
Keyboarding - Answers act of entering data into a computer through the use of a keyboard
Typing or Keying - Answers to produce immediate printed output on an electric or manual typerwriter
Typewriters and computer boards - Answers used to enter or type text and characters
HANSEN Writing Ball - Answers first commercial production on 1870
Rasmus Malling-Hansen - Answers the inventor of Hansen Writing Ball on 1865
Tall model - Answers first writing ball that worked without the used of an electricity
Sholes and Glidden Typewriter 1868 - Answers Where the word typewriter came from; first typewriter
to be commercially patented
QWERTY keyboard - Answers most commonly used layout in typewriters.
carriage return - Answers Lever or key used for returning the carriage to the right to start a new line.
Left Carriage Release - Answers lever at the end that frees carriage so it can be moved by hand
Platen or cylinder knob - Answers Handle at either end of cylinder
Line-space lever or regulator - Answers controls space between lines
Platen or Cylinder - Answers Rubber roller around which the paper moves.
paper guide - Answers blade against which paper is placed
Card Holder - Answers Presses cards and envelopes close to the cylinder.
Left Margin Stop - Answers key lever or button used to adjust the settings of margins
Printing Point Indicator - Answers indicates scale point where machine is ready to print
Paper Bail - Answers clamps the paper to cylinder
Right Margin Stop - Answers lever to adjust settings of margins
Paper Release - Answers Loosens paper for straightening or removing
Right Carriage Release - Answers Used to release carriage so it moves freely from left to right
Right platen knob - Answers handle at end of the cylinder