Samuel Caldwell, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, spoke no Chinese but developed a system whereby each key on the QWERTY keyboard represented a brush stroke in a character; typing the first few strokes linked to a photographic storage matrix.

麻省理工学院教授塞缪尔·考德威尔不会说中文，但开发了一个系统，其中QWERTY键盘上的每个键代表汉字的一个笔画，输入前几个笔画就会链接到一个照片存储矩阵。