Stephen King's first typewriter and that of his character Paul Sheldon both have the brand IBM Selectric. In fact, King wrote the novel "Misery" featuring Sheldon on his own IBM Selectric typewriter.
The same letter was missing. I think it may have been an "M," but I'm not sure. It was "N".
The word typewriter is a singular, common, concrete noun, a thing. Typewriter can be used as the subject or the object of a sentence or phrase. Example sentence:The typewriter is becoming obsolete because the computer and word processing are becoming the norm.
They all produce writing.
Courier, Verdana and Helvetica are some of the most common typewriter fonts. Courier was actually intended to mimic the look of a typewriter and has fixed-width between its letters which means that lines of text align perfectly. Arial and Times New Roman are also seeing lots of use.
You can just say Stephen but more common names in The Netherlands are Stephan or Stefan.
You can easily buy a good 60's to 70's era electric for $20-$50 on eBay. A fully restored manual typewriter can cost $200-$500. A historic machine like a Blickensderfer might be worth more. An unusual version of a common office typewriter (with special symbolic keys, or accents) can push the cost up to close to $1,000.
the jamming of the keys required that common letters not be placed next to each other.
The name Stephen is typically given to around 0.3% of the population, so it is somewhat common, but not extremely popular. It is estimated that there could be millions of people named Stephen globally.
A common type character that has had many other characters that was like him or her.
This model Remington typewriter is so common they have zero collector value so they are worth around $20 minus shipping... Unless it's one of the scarcer under-hammer models it's basically scrap metal.
In Britain in 1714, Henry Mill patented a machine that was very similar to what we know as a typewriter. An Italian named Pellegrino Turri invented a typewriter sometime prior to 1808. In 1829, an American named William Austin Burt patented a machine called the "Typowriter". He is usually called the Father of the typewriter.
Both carried and founded new colonies in the West.
Practically every office used typists or secretaries that used typewriters, so typewriters in 1961 were very common. Nowadays, it is more likely to be a computer rather than a manual typewriter.