Typewriters

It was originally laid out like it is to take allow the strongest fingers to be in contact with the most commonly used keys. The QWERTY keyboard layout was specifically invented, around the turn of the century, after studies on the English language, to be counterproductive, i.e. to make users type as slowly as possible. This was needed because the old, mechanical, typewriters would jam if the user was typing too fast.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. With the key of an old telegraph instrument mounted on its base, Sholes would tap down on his model, and the little type jumped up to hit the carbon & paper against the glass plate. There was nothing for spacing, line advance or any "normal" typewriter feature. Those were all to come. It seems silly, but in 1868, the mere idea that type striking against paper to produce an image was totally new. It needed proving, and the little telegraph key model did the trick.

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With the point proven, Sholes proceeded to construct a machine to do the whole alphabet. The prototype was eventually sent to Washington as the required Patent Model. The original still exists, locked up in a vault at the Smithsonian.

The idea was eventually brought to the attention of the Remington Company by investor James Densmore, to whom Sholes had sold all of his rights. Eventually the "Remington No. 2" became a huge success, and the Typewriter Industry was on its way.

A manual typewriter does not take electricity, an electric typewriter does.

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The top alphabetic row on an English language keyboard is qwertyuiop.

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The home row keys are the initial resting place for fingers in touch typing. Once they are recognized, the location of keys for the rest of the alphabet are automatically known for a trained typist.

A computer with a word-processing program (for example, Microsoft Word, or the freeware word processor included in OpenOffice) offers a lot of advantages over using a typewriter. First and foremost, you can correct any errors, BEFORE you put anything on paper (before you print your document). Also, there are lots of other time-saving features, too many to name here; but I will give one example: the ability to copy large chunks of text from one document to another, without having to type everything over again.

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Mark Twain was the first author to submit a typewritten manuscript to his publisher. So that means he is the first author to use a typewriter. Also, he wrote a humorous testimonial for it. The machine was first offered to ministers and other writers with little to no success.

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The four keys on the left hand side ASDF and the four keys on the right hand side JKL; are the home keys. These are the resting places over which the four fingers of the left and right hands respectively must remain, except when it is necessary to remove a finger in order to strike a key in another row. After this has been done, the finger must be returned immediately to its correct position

The first writing machine was in 1714 and in 1829 the typographer was made. In 1868 Sholes made the typewriter and in 1872 Edison makes the first electric typewriter . The idea of the typewriter began with the development of moveable type in Germany in 1434. So, it really didn't replace anything, but was a further development.

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It created jobs for women

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It made it quicker to produce letters.

Q,the same as on your computer keyboard.

A manual typewriter is the typewriter that was used before the Electric Typewriter was invented.

The use of typewriters has significantly declined since the advent of computers and digital technology. Today, they are primarily utilized by a niche group of enthusiasts, collectors, and some writers who appreciate the tactile experience and nostalgia associated with them. While exact numbers are hard to determine, the overall user base is relatively small compared to the millions of people using computers and digital devices for writing.

The PC (running a word processing application) and the office printer.

The computer keyboard is the same as the typewriter keyboard. The typewriter did have special keys that were not on the keyboard, like the tab keys that indented. The keyboard also has extra function keys that were not on the typewriter.

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