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The Typewriter and the Industrial Revolution Andrew Egger

The Typewriter and the Industrial Revolution Andrew Egger. Christopher Latham Sholes. Christopher Sholes was the first person to patent the modern typewriter. He lived from February 14 , 1819 to February, 1890. Henry Mill patented a similar machine in 1714. Sholes’s Typewriter.

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The Typewriter and the Industrial Revolution Andrew Egger

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  1. The Typewriter and the Industrial RevolutionAndrew Egger

  2. Christopher Latham Sholes • Christopher Sholes was the first person to patent the modern typewriter. • He lived from February 14, 1819 to February, 1890. • Henry Mill patented a similar machine in 1714 Sholes’s Typewriter One of the first typewriters. Henry Mill Christopher Sholes

  3. The Typewriter • The first typewriter was designed in 1867. • It was patented on June 23, 1868 • Thomas Edison invented the first electric typewriter in 1872 Thomas A. Edison

  4. Purpose of the Typewriter • The typewriter was invented so that you could write things easier and faster • It’s basically made up of keys that when pushed stamp a letter, number, or punctuation into a carbon strip which transfers it onto a sheet of paper • Sholes’s initial idea was to make a machine for putting down consecutive numbers, a friend convinced him to include letters and punctuation • His design was the first to use the modern QWERTY keyboard

  5. Importance of the Typewriter • Improved the speed with which a person could put ideas on paper • Increased uniformity over handwritten documents • Made communication easier

  6. The Typewriter Today • There are still electric and manual typewriters in use today • New versions of the typewriter are the word processing programs that computers use

  7. Sources • http://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-history.html • http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/typrwriter.html

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