How to use a typewriter
Type, hear the bell, and throw the carriage back.
How to use a typewriter
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Click the paper and type.
The carriage, the part holding the paper, slides one step left with every letter. At the end of a line a bell rings, and you push the lever to throw the carriage back and roll the paper up a line. That's where “carriage return”, and the Enter key, got their name. Many typewriters had no 1 key: you typed a lowercase l.
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