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How a Mechanical Typewriter Works

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Published on 25 Aug 2023 / In Film & Animation

Featuring more metal parts than a Terminator robot, but using exactly zero electricity, this mechanical typewriter is a wonder from recent history!

CREDITS
Jacob O'Neal - Modeling, animation, texturing, vfx, music, narrative script
Wesley O'Neal - Research, technical script

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WEBSITE
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SOFTWARE USED
We use Blender 3D to create these models. It's free and open source, and the community is amazing:
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0:00 Intro
01:34 Pressing a key
02:25 Typeface
03:21 Mainspring
03:56 Escapement
07:17 Spacebar
07:59 Margins
11:17 Line space lever
12:19 Backspace
14:17 Shift
16:27 Ink ribbon
19:28 Tabs
21:09 Feed rolls

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Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson

Boy Oh Boy - I thought I was ignorant today, but I am 10 x as Ignorant as Yesterday.
The not so humble type writer, became a technological work of art...
These were rather incredible well before WW1 - and it makes the development of machine guns that are timed to fire through the gaps between the rotating propeller blade, rather simple actually.

The discussion here was fruitful and productive.

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