How a Mechanical Typewriter Works

Brilliant animation

This is amazing work.

Very nice graphics with great clear mechanical ⚙️ explanation. With the typewriter could you do an Olivetti lettera 25 model. Please. 🙏🏻 is it the same as this video or the Italian 🇮🇹 design differs how the particular model I mentioned please anyone help. Thanks 🙏🏻

Thank you so much! I just bought a 1930s Typewriter that has some issues, and thanks to this video, I'm confident I can now diagnose the issue when it arrives and make a project out of restoring it to working order.

Can you do one on old cash registers

In 1989 I still did my homework on a mechanical typewriter.

Good video and animation. The narration got a little too expressive? For me. To many adjectives i guess is what I’m trying to say. Less technical. But still great video.

I did use a swedish mechanical calculator (run by an electric motor; but no electronics) that could do addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. The name printed was FACIT and it performed flawlessly. Do anyone remember this company or the machine?

Man, these videos are so great. It reminds me of those big books I would pour over as a kid, with the exploded views and cut-a-ways. It scratches a deep itch.

Here's a cool story. A few weeks ago I visited a shoppong mall with my family. They had a setup there with a typewriter, where kids could pretend to type a letter to the Santa and take a photo. The staff was convinced that the machine is just a prop, but in fact I noticed it was a genuine Underwood from 1923, exactly 100 years old. At first glace, it looked to be in sad shape, but that was hardly the machine's fault. Although I'm relatively young, I still remember my grandfather's typewriter. Intuition kicked in, and I had the writer fixed in 10 minutes: unlocked all the key levers, wound up the ribbon on the spools and through the guides, screwed in loose bits and pieces and set up for typing. Lo and behold to the amazement of the staff, we were typing an actual letter on that very typewriter. It turns out after all these years the only thing not working in these machines are the people, who no longer know how to use them. And here I am looking for an explanation on how exactly this absolutely amazing machine works. Many thanks for an excellent video!

Hey jake! Just curious if you bought a typewriter for this video? I own the model 5.

I’ve worked on a few different typewriters and got several working again. They’re mechanical monsters, but if you can break the mechanics up into “function groups” it’s not so daunting.

This is really interesting to watch!

Howdy! This is just amazing! Simple incredible! I'm a 3D artist and I looked averywhere. Any link or material you can share with me about the schematics? I would really love to add this piece to my portfolio. I have a profund respect for what you do, and how you do it. Any help will be much appreciated!! Thank you so much!

am so impressed that I bought one 😇

Video is great, but these "perfect" and "wow" sound awful

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thank you so much this has been so help full. i’m relating a slightly damaged underwood number 4 it is my first typewriter and this video has help me out so much thank you.

Imagine designing this without CAD. Most likely Goldberg machine style designing

Please make a video for photocopier machines ❤️

Thank goodness for Mechanical Engineers!

The human mind is amazing

What an incredible machine. I remember as a boy looking at these old machines as junk. Thank you.

The video was great. I thought the humor was a little too much. I gave a like. Thanks

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Just Brilliant,thank you.

Amazing!

this is great!

Absolutely spectacular. Thank you for sharing. ❤

So interesting to see a Underwood Number 5 digitalized. Very very nice job. Congrats!!

Thank you. My Grandpa was a Typewrighter mechanic. This brings much nice memories back. Thank you!

This makes me want to get a typewriter

Resident Evil fans are sure gonna love this video

"Pfffft, easy!". Anything but!

HOW THE HECK DID THEY FIGURE OUT HOW TO MAKE ALL OF THIS?!

Your videos are remarkable.

Nobody needs a pc.

Hello it is very good info. And can you make a graphics about a sewing machine? And about a piston avion like dc-6 or super connie?.and about a space shuttle? Also about an atom aircraft carrier ? And an paqueboat like queen mary?

This video is so fascinating and well illustrated and explained

Very impressive

Simply fascinating

It's amazing you take the time to understand how these things work and are able animate and explain it.

I restored a 1930s Underwood No. 5 for my sister a couple months ago, and had to kind of figure my way around all these parts and mechanisms. This would have been a great resource to have then, but instead I can marvel at how precisely you've modeled this thing. It's just like diving into a real one. As you touch on each part, I vividly remember fiddling with it myself.

Man, your channel is pure GOLD!!! of knowledge

Now I know why a typewriter weighed 50 pounds 😂

Thanks for this amazing video. You show me how complex is the functionality of this machine .
I just find your channel and already suscribe . Thanks again.

very nice . i have an old underwood like this and i need to finish getting it operational. the spring loaded pulley that moves the carriage just needs to be reattached