[GreenKeys] [Bulk] Telegrapher's "Mill"

[Ron Kolarik]

Not sure of the origin of the term "mill" but the first patent for a typewriter
was by one Henry Mill......maybe??  I know at Navy code school the typewriters
were always "mills" and pencil copy was with a "stick".

Ron
K0IDT


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lee Mushel" <herbert3 at centurytel.net>
To: "Larry Tighe" <larryradio at att.net>; "Derek Cohn/WB0TUA" 
<vibroplex at mindspring.com>; <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] [Bulk] Telegrapher's "Mill"


> Gentlemen,
>
> What was the time that caps only machines were used and called "mills?"   I
> know that in amateur radio in the mid 50s any typewriter was referred to as
> a "mill."   I am still hoping that someone comes up with the source of the
> word.
>
> 73
>
> Lee   K9WRU
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Larry Tighe" <larryradio at att.net>
> To: "Derek Cohn/WB0TUA" <vibroplex at mindspring.com>;
> <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 6:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] [Bulk] Telegrapher's "Mill"
>
>
>> Derek et. al.
>>
>> FWIW
>>
>> All caps typewriters were the preferred machine in radio newsrooms.  In
>> fact, they came with large type too!
>>
>> lar
>> K2IA
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