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Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule
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Patent (US 79,265) was sold for $12,000 to Densmore and Yost. Became Sholes and Glidden Type-Writer.
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Had QWERTY keyboard layout
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"Get Out I'm Busy"
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Blickensderfer Manufacturing Company, of Stamford, Connecticut,.
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failed because consumers liked the "clickety-clack" sound.
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2,500 electric typewriters had been produced. Remington Electric typewriters were produced powered by Northeast's motors
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now spun off as Electromatic Typewriters
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IBM Electric Typewriter Model 01[22] in 1935. By 1958 IBM was deriving 8% of its revenue from the sale of electric typewriters.
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Replaced the typebars with a spherical element (or typeball) slightly smaller than a golf ball, with reverse-image letters molded into its surface
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Personal computers are in more offices and corporations are using computers
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IBM sells typewriter division to Lexmark
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The QWERTY layout
Conventions like double space, space bar, tab bar. -
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The type writer is now an antique compaared to the modern day computers, laptops, tablets, and phones
