History of Typewriter

By Aido

  • The first Typewriter

    The first Typewriter
    The first typewriter made by Christopher Sholes and Carlos Glidden was a mechanical devise that made the simple writing with pen much slower than using the typewriter. it was so revolutionary that it was the cause of faster productivity in the business industry, and every other industry for that matter.

  • The Caligraph

    The Caligraph
    The Caligraph was the next typewriter to the Remington typewriter this typewriter could type in both upper and lower case letters unlike the Remington which was only upper case. The Remington had a few flaws to it such as, uneven printing quality and type bar suspension was off. This typewriter fixed these problems.

  • Varityper

    Varityper
    The Varityper was quite ingenious, it had over 300 different styles that it could type, it could type in 55 different languages and adjust the spacing between characters. The Varityper was used to produce a neat copy for offset printing.

  • Underwood NO.5

    Underwood NO.5
    This design is by far the most successful style of typewriter. Because it was the first ever typewriter to hit at the front stroke pattern meaning that it would hit he paper at a vertical from apposed to a diagonal making the print clearer and neater. The Underwood NO.5 was so popular that by 1920's all typewriters were an imitation of the Underwood NO.5.

  • Keyboard

    And as we all know, the keyboard is a computer input system that types all sorts of numbers letters and symbols. The entire board is made up of a matrix, with each key set up with their own individual piece. When you press on the key it hits a switch which completes a matrix and then transfers that command to the computer. This allowed less redo's to be done because you could erase your mistakes and have an even neater print than any typewriter.