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Q&A<\/span><\/h4>\n\n

How old is the typewriter?<\/h2>\n\n
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NOT QUITE MY TYPE<\/strong> Christopher Latham Sholes is sometimes dubbed the \u2018father of the typewriter\u2019, but he didn\u2019t come up with the initial concept <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
\u2022 <\/span>SHORT ANSWER<\/span><\/h5>\n\n

Inventors in the 19th century were tip-tapping away trying to making typing quicker <\/p>\n\n

\u2022 <\/span>LONG ANSWER<\/span> <\/h5>\n\n

Christopher Latham Sholes is a name that often comes up when talking about the first typewriter. Receiving a patent in June 1868, the American inventor developed his machine with the help of Samuel W Soule and amateur mechanic Carlos S Glidden, and went into business with the Remington Arms Company. While he achieved commercial success when his device was put on the market in 1874 (complete with the first-ever QWERTY keyboard), Sholes was far from the first person to create such a machine.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

Italian Pellegrino Turri devised a typewriter for the blind to use in the first decade of the 19th century, while in the 1820s, American William Austin Burt patented his one-letter-at-a-time Typographer. <\/p>\n\n

Dr Samuel Francis, around a decade before Sholes, thought he cracked it with his machine, which was dubbed the \u2018literary piano\u2019 due to its resemblance to a keyboard instrument. But to be honest, his inventions were a little bit hit-andmiss, ranging from the self-opening coffin to, more lastingly, the spork. <\/p>\n\n

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