Remington noiseless typewriter mechanism - GIF

[Altair]

Remington noiseless typewriter mechanism.




Previously:

1912 Blickensderfer typewriter - GIF
Japanese typewriter - video
1940 Toshiba 1172-character typewriter - GIF
1902 Lambert typewriter - GIF
Sheet music typewriter

[Scotsman Hosie]

Not that damned quiet. Bring that thing up to even 40wpm, and see how quiet it is. Though, fortunately, technology has pretty well done away with that methodology altogether.

[Elizabeth Greene]

Mechanical typewriter mechanisms are beautiful If you ever get a chance to take one apart*, go for it.

* - not a valuable one, because failure to reassemble it is a very real possibility.

I wish I had a photo of the parts layout from the Selectric I took apart in my teens. It was a work of art. I didn't count them, but it had to have had a thousand parts in it. It covered the entire floor of my room, and I even had to flip the bed up against the wall for more space.

Even better, it worked when I was done. The problem was a broken spring on the E key, and I stole a part from the ~ to fix it.

[jdurand]

In high school we had a Selectric that had been modified as a computer output device. A BIG, hot box mounted to the bottom of the Selectric would trigger it like you were typing. Not super fast but got the job done.