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irly History and final successof one of the most valuable andmost useful inventionsof modern times..*5 • • • •I advise pan at* to have ail their bops and girls lght shorthand writing and typewriting.shorthand writer who can type-w:Ue hi* notes uld be safer from poverty than a greathoi a t.—Cha rtes Iimdlt; on the Coming ManIn ariter—which it is charitv without osten-tion to make known wherever there areriters—Messrs. WvckofT. Seamans andenedict say that the first thought [ofich an invention is to he attributed tohnrv Mill, unknown to fame, who oh-*lined a patent in England in 1714 for ample machine to write consecutively the,‘tters of the alphabet m type. It did notreate a sensation;it was not as much to the‘ype-writer as were the piano-keys oficsage to Professor Morse's electro-mag-et, and it was forgotten. One hundrednd twenty-seven years clasped beforenother invention was offered as a com)etitor of the pen. It was at that time in841, in England, a patent wasgranted toVlexander Bain and Thomas Wright for‘a machine to print intelligence at dis-ant places,1' which never came into use.u the United States Charles Thurber,Fairbanks and Oliver T. Eddv obtainedlatents, and did nothing. In 1867 Mr.. Latham Sholes, a printer and editor;Mr. Samuel W. Soule, a printer, and!* A * »,’arlos Glidden, a retired merchant, allre, inspired by an ardele of the London Engineering, descriptive of “the ptcrotype” invented by JohnPratt, of Centre, Ala., projected the Typewriter. It was completed after six yearsof the persistent application iudispensablc to all great enterprises. Practically,the first instrument wa- rnadebv E, Remington and Sons, in 1878, who are still tie*sole manufacturers.The manufacturers conducted the saleuntil 1882, with an interval of assistancefrom the seale-makers, Messrs. Fairbanksand Co., and others. In August, 188*2. thesole agency for the entire world was iu-trustcd to Messrs. Wvckoff, Seamans andBenedict, who have made in two rearsthe work ^f a quarter of a century, foinone could have expected that in so shorta time Messrs. E. Remington anil Sons* -r workshops and their legion of skilled workmenat llion. The Typewriter is progress,but it is a revolution also, or His Majestjthe Pen would not have yielded as easilycenturies of autocracv.m/«rThe Construction of the lyThe Typewriting is the size of an%* *Unary sewing machine, and is put out onrtanrts and in cases verv much like those* -if the sewing machine. In constructiont resembles the knitting machine. It isiperated by means of a key-board somehing after the style of a piano. It 1nade in several styles, but all are on thesame principle of construction. Theouch of a kev throws up a steel lettervhich strikes an inked ribbon against adieet of paper, which is resisted by a hardoiler. This resistance causes an impre sson of the letter on the paper just in themine manner as the inked type makes anmpression on paper by means of theprinting press. The paper travels automatically. The type is inked by the ribbou, which moves along with the type, sothat the writer has nothing whatever tolo but to tuch the keys, upon which arethe letters of the alphabet on such a smallscale as not to trv the eves ! *f even nearighted people.The whole construction is very simple,md the parts are so skillfully put together as to be readily taken apart. The materials used throughout are of the bestpiality, and each part is cnrcfuMy exanined and mechanically tested before itsuse in the machine. It is made by theRemingtons, of llion, X. 3 whose man ufacturc of rides, sewing machines, electrical apparatus and other article- ofkindred nature have gained for them aworldwide reputation — From Israelstreet’s Journal of Trad *. Finance andPublic Economy. Nov. ‘2*2, ‘8jJ.ri
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Dixon Daily Telegraph
Dixon, Illinois, US
Sat, Dec 20, 1884
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