deskthority

Erich Klockenberg’s 1924 doctoral dissertation, Beiträge zur Psychotechnik der Schreibmaschine und ihrer Bedienung, in which he suggests a split, steeply tented, inward-angled, column-staggered keyboard decades before the ergonomic keyboards we know and love.

Link: http://ir.nmu.org.ua/bitstream/handle/1 ... 65779f.pdf

I couldn’t find any translations anywhere, but it seems to be a super important book in the history of ergonomic keyboards, which inspired many later designs. Google translate won’t accept such a big file, so even for crappy machine translation I’m going to have to copy pages into it piecemeal.

So if anyone has a lot of free time on their hands, and wants to do the keyboard community a solid, I’d appreciate any little translated bits here. I think it’s probably out of copyright (I’m not an expert though), so we could probably put the text and images (both original German and any English translation) up on a webpage somewhere.

(If no one has time, don’t worry about it. I’m not expecting anything.)

I think Beardsmore might be looking for a new challenge.

It's only 36 pages, shouldn't be too hard...
I'm up to translate parts if i manage to find the free time.

I'd suggest a shared document, where ppl can just paste the parts they did translate and an additional spreadsheet, where ppl can reserve pages to translate to prevent duplicates.

Like this:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

Here's a textdoc:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zsv ... sp=sharing