An Old Typewriter Turned Out to Be a Priceless One-of-a-kind

In 1946, renowned author Lin Yutang filed a patent for a typewriter that printed Chinese characters. This is the MingKwai typewriter, with a reasonable number of keys. By pressing two keys, eight characters from thousands in the machine's mechanical hard drive would appear in the typewriter's "magic eye" window. Pressing a third key would select from those and print the character. It was the first Chinese typewriter with a workable keyboard. Lin sank his life savings into producing a prototype in the Uni...

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