WordNet
n. a typewriter powered by an electric motor
Usage examples of "electric typewriter".
Little by little the spaces of silence began to shorten, and now there were occasional bursts of typing - it would have sounded fine on Paul's electric typewriter, but the clacking sound of the Royal was thick, actively unpleasant.
I have absolutely no use for an electric typewriter, for instance.
But these days one would more properly use a Ouija board than an electric typewriter to get in touch with the late great Mrs Fenton, who had made coffee so strong it could almost walk and talk, and why had he said that, anyway?
Its three components rested now on a table in Room 1649: an electric typewriter for input.
The centerpiece is a bright orange electric typewriter that I rented several days ago from a business-machine store on 125th Street in North Miami.
As they watched, the electric typewriter section of the machine began to clatter as it typed the now decrypted message.
His usual writing schedule began early in the morning and lasted until early afternoon, working away on an IBM electric typewriter.
One was a drafting machine, to be operated like an electric typewriter.
All but the control board, that is, and I was sure I could bread-board a rig for that by buying an electric typewriter, tearing its guts out, and hooking the keys to operate these other circuits.
He wanted to buy me an electric typewriter, God bless him -- one of the few true gentlemen in this world.
They also liked to sit on his notes and catch their tails in the carriage of his electric typewriter.
It was an office, Barbara was surprised to see a real, functional gray metal desk and IBM electric typewriter-type office, not a portable typewriter on a writing desk.
A moment or so later the girl who made the transcript on the electric typewriter came in, smiled at me meaninglessly, and I sat down and talked an account into the little microphone on my chest of what had happened with me during the previous two days, making it brief but omitting nothing.
There was a small desk there with an electric typewriter and a pile of paper.
He explained, It is necessary to use an electric typewriter as otherwise the physical effort would be too great.