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History

On early typewriters in the late 19th century, the "bar" was literally a metal bar running across the full width of the keyboard (or even wider and even surrounding it) that triggered the carriage advance without firing any of the typebars towards the platen. Later examples gradually shrank and developed into their current more ergonomic form as a wide, centrally located but otherwise apparently normal "key",

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