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A typewriter being used to type "Wikipedia". A typewriteris a mechanicalor electromechanicalmachine for typingcharacters. Typically, a typewriter has an array of keys, and each one causes a different single character to be produced on paperby striking an inkedribbon selectively against the paper with a type element.
The Sholes and Glidden typewriter (also known as the Remington No. 1) was the first commercially successful typewriter. Principally designed by the American inventor Christopher Latham Sholes, it was developed with the assistance of fellow printer Samuel W. Soule and amateur mechanic Carlos S. Glidden. Work began in 1867, but Soule left the ...
Christopher Latham Sholes (February 14, 1819 – February 17, 1890) was an American inventor who invented the QWERTY keyboard, [2] and, along with Samuel W. Soule, Carlos Glidden and John Pratt, has been contended to be one of the inventors of the first typewriter in the United States. [3] [4] [5] He was also a newspaper publisher and Wisconsin ...
Pellegrino Turri (1765–1828), an Italian inventor, invented a mechanical typing machine, one of the first typewriters, at the start of the 19th century (conflicting accounts suggest 1801, 1806 or 1808) for his blind friend Countess Carolina Fantoni da Fivizzano. [1] He also invented carbon paper [1] to provide the ink for his machine.
Henry Mill (c. 1683–1771) was an English inventor who patented the first typewriter in 1714. [1] He worked as a waterworks engineer for the New River Company, and submitted two patents during his lifetime. One was for a coach spring, while the other was for a "Machine for Transcribing Letters". The machine that he invented appears, from the ...
E. Remington and Sons. then Partnership. Corporation. E. Remington and Sons (1816–1896) was a manufacturer of firearms and typewriters. Founded in 1816 by Eliphalet Remington in Ilion, New York, on March 1, 1873, it became known for manufacturing the first commercial typewriter.
Frank Haven Hall. Frank Haven Hall (February 9, 1841 – January 3, 1911) was an American inventor and essayist who is credited with inventing the Hall braille writer and the stereographer machine. He also invented the first successful mechanical point writer and developed major functions of modern day typography with kerning and tracking .
Typographer (typewriter) The typographer was an early typewriter invented by William Austin Burt. [1] Intended to aid in office work, the machine worked by using a lever to press characters onto paper one at a time. [2] [3] It was the first typewriting machine to be patented in the United States, although Pellegrino Turri had made one in Italy ...