The first mass-produced typewriters began to roll out in the mid-1870s. The Model T of the typewriter age was the Sholes & Glidden, which entered the market on 1 July 1874. A swift uptake saw them ...

Translating to “Clear and Fast,” Lin began designing the MingKwai sometime during the 1940s. Instead of trying to overlay Cangje onto English buttons, his 72-key invention transformed sequential ...

The whole notion that a language with around 80,000 written characters could somehow be adapted for use in a typewriter seems bonkers.

The MingKwai keyboard was invented in 1947 by writer and linguist Lin Yutang, and is capable of producing 80,000-plus Chinese ...