Typewriter

__Typewriter__

Reviewed By: Gwen

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 * 1) //A writing machine that produces characters similar to typeset print by means of a manually operated keyboard that actuates a set of raised types, which strike the paper through an inked ribbon.//
 * 2) Printing//. A typestyle like that of typewritten copy.//
 * 3) //http://www.answers.com/topic/typewriter//

//A **typewriter** is a [|mechanical] or [|electromechanical] device with keys that, when pressed, cause [|ink] to be printed on a medium, usually [|paper]. From their invention before 1870 through much of the 20th century, typewriters were indispensable tools for many professional writers and in business offices. By the end of the 1980s, [|word processors] and [|personal computers] had largely replaced the tasks previously accomplished with typewriters in the western world. Typewriters, however, remain in use in various areas of the world.//

//http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter//

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=//Who//=

= = //**Christopher Latham Sholes**[|[][|2][|]] (February 14, 1819 - February 17, 1890) was an American [|inventor] who invented the first practical [|typewriter] and the [|QWERTY] keyboard still in use today.[|[][|3][|]] He was also a newspaper publisher and Wisconsin politician.//

//http://en.// //wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Latham_Sholes//

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//Born in [|Mooresburg, Pennsylvania], Sholes moved to nearby [|Danville] as a teenager, where he worked as an [|apprentice] to a [|printer]. After completing his [|apprenticeship], Sholes moved to [|Milwaukee, Wisconsin] in 1837. He became a [|newspaper] [|publisher] and [|politician], serving in the [|Wisconsin State Senate] 1848-1849, 1856–1857, and the [|Wisconsin State Assembly] 1852-1853.[|[][|4][|]][|[][|5][|]] He was instrumental in the successful movement to abolish [|capital punishment in Wisconsin]: his newspaper,// The Kenosha Telegraph//, reported on the trial of [|John McCaffary] in 1851, and then in 1853 he led the campaign in the Wisconsin State Assembly.[|[][|6][|]] He was the younger brother of [|Charles Sholes] (1816–1867) who was a newspaper publisher and politician who served in both houses of the Wisconsin State Legislature and as mayor of [|Kenosha, Wisconsin].

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 A **typewriter** is a [|mechanical] or [|electromechanical] device with keys that, when pressed, cause [|ink] to be printed on a medium, usually [|paper]. From their invention before 1870 through much of the 20th century, typewriters were indispensable tools for many professional writers and in business offices. By the end of the 1980s, [|word processors] and [|personal computers] had largely replaced the tasks previously accomplished with typewriters in the western world. Typewriters, however, remain in use in various areas of the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter   In 1714, [|Henry Mill] obtained a  patent in Britain for a machine that, from the patent, appears to have been similar to a typewriter. The patent shows that this machine was actually created: "he hath by his great study and paines & expence invented and brought to perfection an artificial machine or method for impressing or transcribing of letters, one after another, as in writing, whereby all writing whatsoever may be engrossed in paper or parchment so neat and exact as not to be distinguished from print; that the said machine or method may be of great use in settlements and publick recors, the impression being deeper and more lasting than any other writing, and not to be erased or counterfeited without manifest  discovery."[|[][|2][|]]   My mother told me some funny stories about her and her typewriter. This is one of the stories that my mom told me. Once my mom had to stay up all night righting her collage report in her private dorm and her neighbor started banging o on the wall screaming at my mom for making such a loud racket on her typewriter at 5:00am.   <span style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: #000000; display: block; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: #000000; display: block; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> TimelineIn <span style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: #000000; display: block; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">1714 typewriter was first invented by Henry Mill. <span style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: #000000; display: block; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: #000000; display: block; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">In 1866 Christopher Latham Sholes a fellow printer Samuel W. Soule invented a numbering machine. <span style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: #000000; display: block; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: #000000; display: block; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">In 1867 Sholes was inspired by a prototype typewriter that was invented by John Pratt so Sholes decided to to make something similar but could do letters and stuff that a prototype writer can’t do. <span style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: #000000; display: block; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: #000000; display: block; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">In 1868 Christopher Latham Sholes, Samuel W. Soule and a man called Carlos Glidden invented their first typewriter that had only two rows. also there was no zero or one for the numbers because it looked to much like the letters O and an I so if you needed to use those two numbers I guess they will use the two letters O and I. On July 14 the first document was written on a typewriter it was a contract that Sholes had written. Similar inventions came out like a typewriter but then the inked ribbon came out by Sholes which made it much more easier to write with. Sholes, Glidden and Soule wrote letters to many people on their machine and see if they were interested and a man named James Densmore said he will buy it, but he didn’t even look at the machine.

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