Typewriter

The Typewriter

  • First Prototype

    First Prototype
    The first prototype was in 1829 and that is when it first looked like an old cash register.
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    Typewriters History

    The Typewriter, the first of many writing machines. All though it's not quite as it seems as such a "successful" product...
  • The First Working Typewriter

    The First Working Typewriter
    The first ever one to actually work was in 1867 and that's also when it first blew up as an incomplete invention so they only made enough for the general population to have one.
  • Patent

    Patent
    Sholes first received his first patent in 1867 as a small time, hard working business man with a small idea at the start.
  • The Keyboard Design

    The keyboard, one of the most important parts of typing. It wasn't as easy as would think it was to make this. One of the first typewriters ever made kept on getting the keys to jam, so the creator of the keyboard, Christopher Latham Sholes spent a whole summer putting the keys at random to help the jamming problem. That's where the original QWERTY keyboard came from, to slow typer's down.
  • QWERTY keyboard

    QWERTY keyboard
    The first keyboards were in alphabetical order and people were typing so fast that the keys would jam so Sholes spent the summer of 1867 trying to develop the QWERTY keyboard to slow down typers.