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The concept
The concept of the typewritter was first thought of by an Englishman named Henery Mill. He put it into terms: "an artificial machine or method for the impressing or transcribing of letters singly or progressively one after another." -
Invented
The first typewritter proven to have worked was created by an Italian Pellegrino Turri. He created it for his blind friend Countess Carolina Fantoni da Fivizzano. Though we don't know what his machine looked like, we have fragments of letters written by the Countess on this device. -
The Ribbon
Before 1841 the typewriter did not have a ribbon, which is a arbon strip. The ribbon is the ink for the typewritter, when youpress a key it hits the ribbon which then leaves the mark of the letter of which you typed. -
The Typewriter
It was invented in 1868 by Christopher Latham Sholes. When he read an artical in the journal Scientific American about a new British invention inspiring him to invent what was the first practical typewriter. This invention wrote at a speed that exceeded the time it took to write by hand. -
Pioneering
The first electically operated typewriter was engineered by Thomas A. Edison and developed into the ticker-tape printer later on. -
Manufacturing
Since the time Sholes invented the typewritter till it was manufactured in 1873 he made some improvements. He signed a contract with E. Remington and Sons, gunsmiths, of Ilion, New York, for manufacturing. -
Released on Market
The first typewriter was released for sale on the open market. Soon after its release it was renamed the Remington. Along with the original features were the cylinder, that had line-spacing and carriage return mechanism. -
Remington Model 2
The Remingtion Model 2 was the first typewriter to have a shift key mechanism, which allowed the user to change between capital and lower-case lettering. -
Electric
The electric typewriter was invented by the Blickensderfer manufacturing company, of Stamford, Connecticut. The International Business Machines Corporation introduced the design for this model, and it was based on a spherical type-carrier -
Foldable
The standard foldable typewriter appeared on the market as the first truly lightweight model. It was invented by a man named Frank Rose. There were roughly 12,000 made. -
Portable
Before the first successful typewriter apeared on the market they were slow and not practical. Enventually by the 1950s all typewriters that were manufactured were portable. They were less sturdy, but had lighter parts. -
Noiseless
The noisless typewritter came out with a special feature: there was no clicking noise after hitting one of the keys. This type of typewriters did not last very long, and the noisless factory was soon taken over by Remingtion in 1924. -
Progression of the typewriter
