History of the Typewriter:
The first known patent for a typewriter was granted by Queen Anne of England on January 7, 1714. The patent was issued by a man named Henry Mill. He was an English engineer. No record or description of this invention survived.
The first typewriter to be made in the United States was an invention by William Austin Burt from Detroit. The typewriter was developed in 1828 and his patent was approved by President Andrew Jackson that year as well. He called his invention a “Typographer” and it had the appearance of a butcher's meat block. The only model of this typewriter was destroyed in a fire in 1836.
The first working and practical typewriter was made in September 1867. The inventor of the first typewriter was Christopher Latham Sholes from Milwaukee. His invention was patented in June 1868. The first commercial model was manufactured in 1873 and was mounted on a sewing machine stand. It only wrote in capital letters.
The typewriter was invented because Sholes was developing a machine for numbering book pages when he decided to make a machine that could print words as well as numbers.
He also invented the keyboard system we use today. “QWERTY.” It was originally supposed to slow down typing.
Sholes convinced Philo Remington who had a rifle company to market the typewriter.
The sales of the typewriter skyrocketed in 1908. It was clear then that this invention would change the business world, and how people communicate, and get their information.
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