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.
a typewriter was an old fashioned way of typing stuff like letters
The purpose of the typewriter was to increase efficiency, first in the commercial setting then branching out to the public. Ironically, it's successor, the computer, allowed for quick and easy editing of grammatical mistakes which you failed to take advantage of in your question.
Christopher Latham Sholes, a newspaper editor, developed the typewriter, with the help of Samuel Soule and Carlos Glidden, in the 1860s. The purpose of the typewriter was to create a faster and more efficient way of transcribing text than writing by hand. Burridge and Marshman were not directly involved in the invention of the typewriter.
To enable people to write clearly - some people's handwriting is terrible, mine included!
A manual typewriter is the typewriter that was used before the Electric Typewriter was invented.
Babbage did not invent the typewriter - he invented the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine: mechanical mathematical processors. His purpose in designing those was to simplify and improve the accuracy of complex, repetitive arithmetic operations.
Yes, I have a typewriter.
A manual typewriter is the typewriter that was used before the Electric Typewriter was invented.
on the typewriter
THE TYPEWRITER WAS mass marketed in 1779
what typewriter was invented in the 1940?
You can't get a free Chicago typewriter but if you want a Chicago typewriter you can finished the game and buy the Chicago typewriter for 1,000,000 pesetas.