We as living beings need to
communicate. In 1867, Christopher Sholes, with the help of Carlos Glidden and
Samuel Soule, aided the human race by inventing the very first practical
mechanical typewriter machine. It not only helped us communicate better, but
influenced future inventors and their ideas to assisted the people around them
and make a profit off of it. The typewriter started with the idea of applying a
similar concept of the printing press. They molded the idea into a machine for
individual uses. In 1714, something similar to a typewriter was invented by
Henry Mill in England, but none of these inventions survived.
In 1829, from Detroit, Michigan a
man, William Burt, had patented his ‘typographer’. It had characters on a
rotating frame, but much like many of the similar inventions after it, it was
very heavy, unreliable, hard to use, and more times than not, it took longer to
produce a letter than writing it by hand. The typewriter Sholes, with the
assistance of Glidden and Soule, had invented was the most reliable to date.
They patented their invention, and licensed it to Remington & Sons of Ilion,
New York. By 1867, the Remington Model one was placed on the market. It was the
first useful, commercial typewriter. It wasn’t until 1978, though, that the
first electronic typewriter that was capable of storing text first appeared. It
was developed by the Olivetti Company in Italy and the Casio Company in Japan.
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