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), Plano. 111.fr. i Early History and final successt. of one of the most valuabie andtsmost useful inventionsof modern times.a,f“I advise part at* to have all their Pop* and girls taught shorthand writing aud type-writing. . . .n,idt?rrtA shorthand writer who caa type-write his notes would he safer from poverty than a great GreekScholar.' * —r ///iro ■. tinIn a pamphlet descriptive of the Type-E.writer—which it is charity without ostentation to make known wherever there are,st11-writers—Messrs. Wvckoff. Seamans andBenedict say that the first thought [ofvcLiysuch an invention is to be attributed toIlenrv Mill, unknown to fame, who oh-*tained a patent in England in 1714 for asimple machine’to write consecutively theletters of the alphabet in tvpe.create a sensation ;it was not as much to theType-writer as were the piaao-keys ofins13dvLesage to Professor Morse's electro-magnet, and it was forgotten. One hundredand twenty-seven years clasped beforeanother invention was offered as a comhe i petitor of the pen. It was at that time iu1841, in England, a patent was granted to'cn ! Alexander Bain and Thomas Wright forhe “a machine to print intelligence at dis-)31‘ tant places,” which never came into use.°f I In the United States Charles Thurber,in£ I Fairbanks and Oliver T. Eddy obtainedE)T1* patents, and did nothing. In 1867 Mr.C. Latham Sholes, a printer and editor;Mr. Samuel W. Soule, a printer, andiet Carlos Glidden, a retired merchant, allithresidents of Milwaukee, inspired by an article of the London Engineering, descrip• J ^mo(lt;* ithe pterotype” invented by Johning. toiiiPratt, of Centre. Ala., projected the Typewriter. It was completed after six yearsof the persistent application iudispensablc to all great enterprises. Practically,the first instrument was made by E. Rem-01'L ington and Sons, in 1878. who are still thesole manufacturers.ort | The manufacturers conducted the salethe j until 1882, with an interval of assistancefrom the sealc-makers. Messrs. Fairbanksand Co., and others. In August, 1882. the1 id j sole agency for the entire world w*as in-surc , trusted to Messrs. Wvckoff, Seamans andt 1rinS 1 Benedict, who have made in two vearsr *-5id I the work of a quarter of a century, foinone could have expected that iu so short i a time Messrs. E. Remington and Sonshortr worrc-shops and their legion of skilled workmenancl j at Ilion. The Type-writer is progress,O Viier abut it is a revolution also, or His Maiestv*the Pen would not have yielded as easilycenturies of autocracv.ma'j The Construction of the Type*aila-: Writer.10 r. . ! The Type-writing L the size of an or: dinary sewing machine*, and is put out on 1,1 j stands and in cases very much like those of the sewing machine. In construction-ato-it-it resembles the knitting machine. It isiny means ol a kev-board some-thing after the style of a piano. It 1made in several styles, but all are on the*nilsame principle of construction. Thendtouch of a kev throws up a steel letterwhich strikes an inked ribbon against ar’} j sheet of paper, which is resisted by a hardidroller. This resistance causes an impression of the letter on the paper just in the; same manner as tliu inked type makes an u’ | impression on paper by means of the 1 printing press. The paper travels auto-onnvmatically. The type U inked by the ribbon, which moves along with the tvpe. soilithat the writer has nothing whatever todo but to tuch the keys, upon which arethe letters of the alphabet on such a small! scale as not to trv the eves! *f even nearjIj sighted people.The whole construction i very simple,and the parts are so skillfully put togetiiu‘ | er as to be readily taken apart. The ma-ne i terials u^ed throughout are of the bestsh ; quality, and each part d carefidl;of ! ined and meehanicaliv tested before itin- 1 use in the machine, ft is made by the;c. Remingtons, of Uion, M. V , whose manof ufacture of rifles, sewing machines, decatrical apparatus and other article- of»ut | kindred nature have gained for them a\t i world-wide reputation. — From Bradcd | street’s Journal of Trad *. Finance andh Public Economy. Xov. ‘22. j.a *onsid-tter into useid ICC-; H jiverV
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Dixon Daily Telegraph
Dixon, Illinois, US
Sat, Dec 20, 1884
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