Via http://www.shadycharacters.co.uk/2016/02/typewriters-and-pilcrows/ … 'Marcin himself found the answer lurking in' https://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2433/139379/1/42_161.pdf … 'to indicate "paragraph separator"'
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Replying to @busgus
He is currently considering that just one of several unproven theories though. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IcdaTpY1NqidG582uaY9WFzHiTZ-wRv8yLoIvN_GM0A/edit# …
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Replying to @enf
Well, darn. Poking around I see Mitterhofer put it above : and . as one of three symbols in 1865, so its history predates qwerty.pic.twitter.com/6nkqO3UGba
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Replying to @busgus
Interesting! I haven't seen that image before. Where's it from?
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Replying to @enf
I'm pretty sure I pasted from wiki commons, probably .de, but there are lots of views, search Mitterhofer Dresden.
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Replying to @busgus
Thanks! Seems to be https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schreibmaschine_Modell_Dresden_1864-65-Technische_Sammlungen_Dresden_4.jpg …
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It is still pretty mysterious, without a sample of how it was used in context
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I’m going to reach out to the Mitterhofer/Dresden museums to see if they know anything!
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Nifty, let us know. If I remember it was not a key on his prior machines, but I may have missed something, this was all images online
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I understand that the typewriter had proportional spacing, so those three buttons could also mean something else. This alignment of 1-2–3 seems like it could mean many things.
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