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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.
June 23 is National Typewriter Day, which celebrates the 1st commercially successful typewriter — which was patented by Christopher Latham Sholes on this day in 1868.
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.