Inventor of Typewriter: Christopher Latham Sholes

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Although Licklider indicated the automatic speech production and recognition, the typewriter still was the most mature and wide-used input equipment of computer.

This machine is the duplicate of the original working model. It has two space bars on both the sides of the keyboard. It is interesting because there was only one typewriter with such space bar was the Caligraph, an invention of George Yöst.[pic 1]

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This machine is the experimental machine after their first typewriter which shows the effort of Sholes that he was trying to work out machines which could write from wheels or semi wheels. As it was argued at the time that it was impossible to keep type-bar machines in alignment.

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This model is close to the early production models, which indicates that it must be one of the later working models, possibly produced in or just before 1873.

These are some paper related to the Typewriter.

Computer v/s Typing - Its the typewriter vs computer which specifies the advantages and disadvantages of each machine. It also suggest the innovation in the technology as the time passes. The drawbacks of the typewriter are overcome with the innovation of computer but still it cannot produce the print out of the written copy immediately like typewriter if it is not connected to the printer.

The history of typewriter - “There is no commercialism in this proposition. The typewriter of 1867 stands in a class by itself. It is unique, in that it had no competitor, with no dream of colossal wealth in the mind of the inventor, whose sole aim and effort was the construction of a machine that would lighten the labor of the toiler and inure to the benefit and happiness of mankind.” This shows the actual purpose of this invention. It was for the benefit of the mankind which was the sole aim of its construction and it is also mentioned that this idea will not a dollar out of the Treasury of the National Association.

Design Reading book- “Among all the mechanical inventions for which the age is noted none, perhaps, has more rapidly come into general use than the typewriter… The time is coming when it will almost, or quite as much, supersede the steel pen as that has the good, pray goose quill.”

References:

Books

Adler, Michael H., The Writing Machine, George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1973.

Beeching, Wilfred A., Century of the Typewriter, St. Martin's Press, 1974.

Bliven, Bruce Jr., The Wonderful Writing Machine, Random House, 1954.

Current, Richard N., The Typewriter, University of Illinois Press, 1954. □

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