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[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Typebars.jpg/220px-Typebars.jpg)
Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]typebar (plural typebars)
- In some typewriters, an arm actuated by pressing the keys that carried the type to strike the ribbon to form a letter.
- 2018, Mark J. P. Wolf, The Routledge Companion to Media Technology and Obsolescence:
- The speedy, well-engineered Underwood was eventually so successful that within a couple of decades, the vast majority of typewriters followed its model: They were single-shift, frontstroke, typebar typewriters with four-bank QWERTY keyboards, inked by a ribbon.
See also
[edit]Typewriter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Category:Category:Typebars on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons