What was the purpose of the typewriter?

Answer 1

If you are talking about the first commercially successful typewriter, most credit this to be the Sholes and Glidden produced by the gunmaker Remington. The beginning of the blurb I found is this: "It was called the "Sholes & Glidden Type Writer," and it was produced by the gunmakers E. Remington & Sons in Ilion, NY from 1874-1878. It was not a great success (not more than 5,000 were sold), but it founded a worldwide industry, and it brought mechanization to dreary, time-consuming office work. . The idea began at Kleinsteuber's Machine Shop in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the year 1868. A local publisher-politician-philosopher named Christopher Latham Sholes spent hours at Kleinstuber's with fellow tinkerers, eager to participate in the Age of Invention to produce devices to improve the lot of Mankind. . It's said Sholes was working on a machine to automatically number the pages in books, when one of his colleagues suggested the idea might be extended to a device to print the entire alphabet. An article from "Scientific American" was passed around, and the gentlemen nodded in agreement that "typewriting" (the phrase coined in SA) was the wave of the future. . Sholes thought of a simple device with a piece of printer's type mounted on a little rod, mounted to strike upward to a flat plate which would hold a piece of carbon paper sandwiched with a piece of stationery. The percussive strike of the type should produce an impression on the paper." You can find more info at http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/firsttw.html. Wikipedia has a good history of the typewriter and extensive information and resources about much earlier typewriters-like units and the precursors to the modern typewriter. You can find that page at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter.

Answer 2

the type writer was exactly like a key board you cold type on it and :type letters, type stories or and thing and as you was typing y would have u paper coming out of the top like it was being printed so its like a compute but without a screen !! x

Answer 3

I'd say keys jamming. It was caused because the return rate of the typebars to their rest position was slower than it took to activate the next key. To solve this, the typebars were separated to ensure that common English digraphs (two-letter sequential combinations) used keys that were farther apart, resulting in the design of the QWERTY keyboard to allow typewriter operators to type faster without jams.

Answer 4

to write letters and bank statements all the things we do on a computer!! :D