History of the Typwriter
During his employment at Kleinsteuber's Machine Shop in Milwaukee Wisconson in the year of 1868, Christopher Latham Sholes began to think of a new invention that would be used to number the pages on documents. Sholes created a prototype typewriter by using a rod connected to a little hammer that when struck imprinted a symbol on a blank sheet of paper behind a piece of carbon coated paper. This typewriter had no scrolling text or changes in symbols and lines. It was just a little start on what was to come.
First complete typewriter
After shole had demonstrated what he could do with the simple model he started making a full keyboarded model that would act as a complete functional keyboard. He completed it and sent it to Washington DC, to get a patent on it. The model is now in the Smithsonians vault. Here is a picture of his first finished typewriter.
Final production typewriter
The final type writer was called the Shole and GiddonType writer. It had the name Giddon in it because of the man named Carlos Giddon who helped Sholes in the manufacturing of the machine.The final machinewas made by the Remington company and did not have all of the fancy paint and jewels that the first one did. The model to the left resemble a sewing machine because oneof the engineers that helped Sholes had worked for a sewing machine company before he came to work for Sholes. The first typewriter that was mad only tyed in uppercase letters and was very slow and broke down alot. Remington decided to come out witha No.2 model in 1878 that typed in both upper case letters and lowercase. The No.2 model was less flashy but got the job done way better and was more quite and lighter. The typewriter didn't at first catch on but within ten years its era had begun.
Cause and effect
Without the typewriter the people of america would not have been aple to send letters in mass to many people. It allowed for vast improvements in communication nation wide. The type writer was invented because people needed a faster way to communicate and tag items for sales and prices. If the typewriter would not have been invented the industrial revolution would not have been as fast and not as effective. Without the typewriter the United States would not be what we know it today.