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Christopher Sholes was the first person to patent the modern typewriter. He lived from February 14, 1819 to February, 1890. Henry Mill patented a similar machine in 1714 Henry Mill Christopher Sholes Sholes’s Typewriter One of the first typewriters.
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The first typewriter was designed in 1867. It was patented on June 23, 1868 Thomas Edison invented the first electric typewriter in 1872 Thomas A. Edison
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The typewriter was invented so that you could write things easier and faster It’s basically made up of keys that when pushed stamp a letter, number, or punctuation into a carbon strip which transfers it onto a sheet of paper Sholes’s initial idea was to make a machine for putting down consecutive numbers, a friend convinced him to include letters and punctuation His design was the first to use the modern QWERTY keyboard
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Improved the speed with which a person could put ideas on paper Increased uniformity over handwritten documents Made communication easier
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There are still electric and manual typewriters in use today New versions of the typewriter are the word processing programs that computers use
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http://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-history.html http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/typrwr iter.html
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