Back to matters of real importance--typewriters. The Smith Premier #10 is an amazing mechanical beast. Some may go all gooey at thoughts of microprocessors, but a marvel of engineering like the double-keyboard, front-stroke #10 really sends me. Eighty-Four typebars all aiming in the same direction! It isn't any easier to use than an Underwood Standard (I keep reaching for that phantom space bar) but I am wowed by the sheer ambition of the design and complexity of the machinery--eating one's cake and having it, too. These Edwardians! "We are going to have a separate typebar for every character AND make them all fit." The microcomputer may be a miracle of science, but everything these people made 100 years ago reached a similar MECHANICAL pinnacle, and much of it STILL WORKS. I defer to the inventors of my great-grandfather's generation and wonder at their prowess. What secrets did these men possess?