Nelson『Typewriter Reforms―The Combinational Keyboard』 (1921)

William Wilson Nelsonの『Typewriter Reforms―The Combinational Keyboard』(Science Progress, Vol.XVI, No.62 (1921年10 月), pp.307-318)

Viewed merely as a machine, and for the work it has to do, the Typewriter at its best seems to have already become mechanically perfect.

Why the present "Standard" keyboard, as it is called, should be so defective in its literary scheme it is impossible, in the absence of precise information, to say; but it may be assumed that the original inventors being, as mechanicians, more anxiously concerned about the conception, adjustment, and proper working of its mechanical parts than about the study of the habits of our Language, failed to see the possibilities that lay hidden in the keyboard problem, and arranged as best they could the keyboard which, through purely commercial considerations, has since become the standard keyboard of all Typewriters.

昔のマシンは、今に比べれば、ずっと不完全だったってな？だから、機械の都合に、だいぶ譲歩した配列だった？
今1920年なら、もっとずっと、いい具合にできる　はず、、

1.The habits of the hands.
2.The habits of the Language.
3.The associations habits of the mind.

(Cambers's Encyclopedia, ed. circa 1888, article――Printing）：
E 120,T 90, A 85, S 80, I 80, O 80, N 80, H 64, R 63, D 44, L 40, U 34, C 30, M 30, F 25, W 20, Y 20, P 17, G 17, B 16, W 12, K 8, Q 5, J 4, X 4, and Z 2.¹

1 The Encyclopedia gives the figures as E 12,000, T 9,000, A 8,500, and so on to Z 200;

参考、http://slashdot.jp/~yasuoka/journal/497864

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