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By the 1400s, people had already gotten tired of writing's difficulty and looked for new ways to reduce this labor.
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The first invention that revolutionized the world of writing
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Petty's invention was really just a machine that wrote with two pens at once.
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Mill's machine was much more similar to the 20th century typewriter.
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The first American writing machine
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Would eventually become the inspiration for the first commercially successful typewriter
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The first prototype of this typewriter was shaped almost exactly like a piano.
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Instead of the usual A-Z keyboard layout of its time, the typewriter in the format everyone is well-versed in today, the QWERTY keyboard layout in order to prevent excessive jams.
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Hammond "created" a typewriter that utilized the revolutionary idea of interchangeable type, or the "shift" button on today's keyboards.
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Northeast was interested in finding new markets for their electric motors and developed Smathers's design so that it could be marketed to typewriter manufacturers.
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Remington Electric typewriters were introduced
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The company IBM started
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Due to falling sales IBM sold there typewriting division
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A collectible item.