What is a Stenograph Machine?

A shorthand machine is a typewriter. Ordinary typewriters are just like handwritten shorthand. You can type only one letter in one stroke, and the input of letters is only time-varying. The shorthand machine can hit several keys at the same time, and the simultaneity of symbol input is produced. The letters of the shorthand machine can be combined in different ways, and they can be printed on the rolled paper. If it is handled skillfully, it may be faster than handwritten shorthand recording, and the labor intensity is greatly reduced, and translation is much easier than handwritten shorthand.

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Multi-keystroke keystrokes originated in the United States more than a century ago and are still in use today. The American shorthand machine manufactured by American Quixote Company uses the multi-key tapping method and the working principle of the Premium Power computer-aided recording system. Other shorthand machine keys such as Germany, Australia, Britain, Bulgaria, Italy, Japan and other countries also use multi-key and keystroke to perform shorthand work. It uses the method of double-handed multi-tap and double-tap on the left-right symmetrical special keyboard, and double-tap words are input by double-tap to achieve the purpose of fast recording. With both fingers in both hands, the speed is naturally faster than single finger tapping.

The first row of keys in the second column grows the first column of keys, and its length is 3/5 times the length of the first row of keys in the second column; the first row of keys in the third column is located in the first row of the second column. , Its growing part is 1/6 times the length of the first row key in the second column; the first row key in the fourth column is lower than the first row key in the third column, and the lower part is the first row key in the second column 1/5 to 1/4 times the key length; the first row of keys in the fifth column is aligned with the first row of keys in the fourth column, the middle key is in the fifth row of the third key on the left keyboard, and the fifth row of the right key The third row of keys is aligned.

The staggered arrangement of the column and row keys makes the key arrangement of the left and right keyboards closely correspond to the shape of the five fingers of the left and right hands, so as to reduce the air distance of the hands, wrists and fingers in the keystroke, and achieve the purpose of increasing speed.