The Typewriter
This person has a job working on a typewriter.
What is a typist?
This material from elephants' and rhinos' horns is a substitute for paper.
What is ivory?
This was the easiest way to store paper like materials. Hint: it looks like a fruit roll up
What is a scroll?
Ancient Egyptians used these pictures as their alphabet.
What are hieroglyphs?
This Asian country, which has a Great Wall,was the first to invent printing.
What is China?
This material was used by William Burt to make the first ever typewriter in 1829.
What is wood?
In this Asian country famous for sushi and ninjas, you learn 881 characters for the alphabet rather than the 26 here.
What is Japan?
This paper substitute is made from animal skin.
What is parchment?
Ancient Egyptians use this material to make pens. Hint it's plant based and it's used in some musical instruments like the clarinet.
What are reeds?
You may have played with these as a baby to learn the alphabet but they were essential to the first printer.
What is a wood block?
This is a common typewriter key layout. Hint: it's also your computer keyboard layout.
What is QWERTY?
This was the most common writing material in India and southeast Asia. Hint it's from the tree that gives you coconuts.
What are palm leaves
This plant based paper substitute was commonly used by the ancient Egyptians.
What is papyrus?
This famous stone which has a flower in its name helped translate Egyptian hieroglyphs.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
This slanted writing was named after a country in Europe.
What is Italic?