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Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠ @catsalad@infosec.exchange

3/6/2026, 6:51:11 PM

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@AccordionBruce So many buttons! :O

AccordionBruce @AccordionBruce@mastodon.social

3/6/2026, 8:55:01 PM

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@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠
Reading about the optical photoelectric triggers makes me want to talk about this #accordion with the #MechanicalKeyboard people

When @mwicharyMarcin Wichary was writing his Shift Happens history of (typing) keyboards) I was writing my book on the #accordion

A fun coincidence of buttons and keys and patents all around the same time in the 1830s–1860s

Charles Wheatstone’s Symphonium. Direct predecessor of the English concertina. Patented 1829 same year as the first instrument called an Accordion. Looks like a small silver box with ivory buttons on the side with an ivory-lined hole you blow into on the front.

The Hansen Writing Ball. The first commercially successful typewriter. Looks like a complicated brass hedgehog with letters on top of the spikey ball. Below the spiky ball is the paper which moves in order to type on it.

A foot bass, pump organ. Like can accordion you play with your feet. Large flat dark wooden box with a row of round buttons on top that you play like the foot pedals of an organ while you press down with your feet.

An old prototype Wheatstone telegraph keyboard developed by the same guy who did the concertina. Looks like a wooden cigar box with a split ergonomic keyboard on top made of wooden circular buttons splayed like two birds wings.

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