Office Automation & Business Machines 1947 (IBM Chinese Character Typewriter, China, full video)

201021 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. A Pre-Computer Look at Office Automation & Business Machines of 1947. This Vintage film describes many high-end business machines found in offices of the 1940’s, including the IBM Chinese Character Typewriter, and various machines for filming, stenciling, folding, lithographing, micofiche storage, a Fileomatic, an Electronic Wire Recording and much more.
* * The CHINESE TYPEWRITER sequence can be seen at time index 12:29

Also shown is speed typist Stella Pajunas, using an IBM Model A Electric Typewriter, who set a one-hour typing speed record in 1946 of 140 words per minute.

Full original film runs about 16 minutes. (Audio/video enhancements, uploaded by Computer History Archives Project. With thanks to Internet Archives and AV Geeks.)

More info on the IBM Chinese Character Typewriter, see also Post article:
https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3135053/she-memorised-ibm-typewriter-codes-5400-chinese

On June 28, 1944, Kao Chung-Chin, an inventor at IBM, was awarded a patent on December 17, 1946 for his invention of a 36 key typewriter that used numbers to represent Chinese Characters. (Wikipedia)

www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/modelb/modelb_4509PH04.html
https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/modelb/modelb_4509PH04.html

For Vintage Office Machines, see also Old Office Machines & Furniture
http://www.wkinsler.com/office/index.html

Vari-typewriter at the National Museum of American History
https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_849997

Autotypist
https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co38137/model-6300-auto-typist-automated-typewriter-c195-typewriter
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