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How this long-lost Chinese typewriter from the 1940s changed modern computing

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The MingKwai typewriter

The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented in 1946, was found last year in an upstate New York basement.

(Image credit: Elisabeth von Boch)

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