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Your horseless carriage is parked outside this very door, sir. My typewriter has a broken carriage.
Carriage was the roller on a typewriter that held the paper in place. The carriage return moved the carriage back to the beginning of the column on a new line.
The first typewriter was called the "blind typewriter" because the early models did not have a visible carriage. This made it difficult for the typist to see the letters as they were being typed, hence the term "blind typewriter."
One of the operative parts of a typewriter is the paper mechanism. The paper mechanism helps roll the paper and move it left to write while the user types. The keyboard is also an operative part of the typewriter.
The carriage return refers to a key on a typewriter. The carriage return key returns a typer to the beginning of a line of text and goes to the next line. When a typer reaches the end of a line of text on the paper, they would hit the carriage return key to advance to the next line.
LF, CR (line feed, carriage return) from the typewriter days when the paper would feed around a roller and the roller was on a carriage that moved horizontally.
There should be a margin-set lever that can be slid further in or out to alter the travel of the carriage. The margin-set lever is often located next to the larger carriage release lever.
The principal parts of a typewriter are the keyboard, typebars or typeballs, platen, carriage, ribbon, and mechanism for moving and controlling the parts. The keyboard is used to input characters, the typebars or typeballs carry the characters that are imprinted onto the paper, and the platen provides the backing for the paper to receive the characters. The carriage holds the paper while it is being typed on, and the ribbon transfers ink onto the paper.
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Fireplace to oven, typewriter to computer, horse-drawn carriage to car, and ice-box refrigerator
ASCII (decimal) 10 is a linefeed character. text editors often use both a carriage return character (13) and a line feed character (10) when starting a new line. the same logic a typewriter uses where you have to return the carriage (which moves the paper over) and then feed the paper upwards.
To set margins on a Smith Corona Typewriter Wordsmith, you can use the margin setter keys. Press and hold down the "mar" key and move the carriage to the desired position using the spacebar. Release the "mar" key to set the right margin. Follow the same steps for the left margin using the "lmar" key.