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Henry Mill patents a machine simmilar to a typewriter.
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Pellegrino Turri builds a functioning typewriter and invents the firsrt carbon paper.
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William Austin Burt, attempts to patent and sell the 'Typographer'. He fails, but others are inspired.
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Many attempt to invent their own version of he typewriter. Most are unsucessful.
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Charles Thurber creates multiple desgins in an attempt to help the blind to write.
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The first comercially marketed typewriter is sold in Denmark. It's called a "Skrivekugle". Literally, "Writing Ball".
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The Sholes & Glidden typewriter is designed.
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Sholes and Glidden Type-writer becomes the first commercially sucessful typerwriter. It uses the QWERTY keyboard layout.
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The shift key comes into use.
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The QWERTY Keyboard layout is popularized
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The company that manufactured Skrivekugle goes out of business.
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By the 1890's frontstriking keyboards are the standard. Which means you can read what you're typing, as you type it.
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The first portable typewriter is invented. It's called the Blickensderfer.
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By 1910 all typewriters have basically the same desgin.
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The Dvorak Layout is patented. This purpose of this layout is to reduce the movement neccecary to type, though it doesn't catch on.
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"Correction Fluid" is invented. Finally
