What Is an Electric Typewriter?

Typewriter is a machine that replaces manual writing, copying, copying, and engraving. A typewriter is a mechanical, electrical, or electronic device used for writing. When in use, by hitting a key on the keyboard, the font of the character corresponding to the key will hit the ribbon, so that the character will be printed on paper or other media. Each time a character is typed, the typewriter moves the position of the paper in preparation for printing the next word.

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Typewriter is used instead of handwriting,

The text character keys are arranged in "QWERTY" order and are divided into three lines. In addition to the normal character keys, typewriters also have spaces.

Before the birth of the typewriter

In the 19th century, clerks in the office ruled the world. They sat at high-level writing desks, struggling to write with their hands. Order forms, shipping lists, business correspondence and statements are all written with a pen dipped in ink.

Over the years, many people have tried to invent a machine that makes this job easier, faster, and more efficient. As early as 1714, British engineer Henry Mill obtained a patent on a writing machine, but did not leave any drawings of it. Later, many different types of typewriters were invented, but none of them had actual use value and could not be officially produced.

Typewriter was born

The earliest typewriter in the world was born in 1808 and it was invented by Italian Perellini Turi. His motivation for inventing the typewriter was to help a blind girlfriend of his own. The typewriter was later lost, so we can't know its shape and structure today, but the letters typed using this typewriter are still kept in the archives of Lezzo, Italy.

The first English typewriter that was put into commercial production was produced by Jurgens Machinery in Copenhagen, Denmark. The inventor of the machine was a priest named Marin Hansen.

The inventor of the first practical, real typewriter was an American, his name was Christoph Larson Shoals. In the 1860s, Christopher Lasham Shoals (also translated as Christopher Larson Shoals) and Carlos Glidon were trying to make a book that could automatically number pages. machine. Suddenly, Glidden asked Shoals why the machine didn't print on the book at the same time. Shoals rose to the challenge and made a wooden typewriter model.

Wooden typewriter model made by Shoals

The dial of the Shoals typewriter is basically the same as that of today's typewriters, and the device that is automatically shifted after typing is designed, and the typed characters are also very clear. But the Shoals typewriter is very large, its appearance is ugly, and its operation is cumbersome, because the dial he designed has its own keys for uppercase and lowercase letters, and 78 keys on the keyboard. In addition, this typewriter cannot observe the typed characters. Even if you make a mistake, you have to wait for the entire page to be typed.

Typewriter development

Almost at the same time, Jost, a former Shoals collaborator, was also working on a typewriter with funding from a company. He used a joystick to enable the same key to type uppercase and lowercase letters, which reduced the number of keys on the keyboard by 26 at a time. Jost has also improved the typing part so that the operator can always see the typed characters. It officially entered the market in 1874. Since then, typewriters have been promoted quickly, and Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Italy and other countries have successively manufactured typewriters, forming a new typewriter manufacturing industry.

German Mignon typewriter, produced in 1903

By 1927, when this advertisement from the Italian company Olivetti was published, typewriters were commonplace in offices throughout Europe and the Americas.

A weapon manufacturer, Remington, has discovered the potential use of the Shoals design and bought its production rights. They started production in 1873 and sold thousands of typewriters in three years. Clerks began to be replaced by secretaries, and business correspondence completely changed its appearance.

After many people's improvement, the structure of the mechanical typewriter was basically finalized by the beginning of this century. In the late 1970s, with the development of computer technology, computer typewriters appeared in the United States. A computer typewriter is also called a word processor. From the name, we can see that its function is different from that of a traditional mechanical typewriter. Not only can it type, but it also has a storage function. It is also very convenient to modify and edit. Therefore, the Wang'an Computer Co., which was popular in the 80s around the world. In addition to English and other computer typewriters that directly constitute languages with letters, computer typewriters such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean have appeared around the world. But the good times didn't last long. With the further development of personal computer (PC) technology, computer typewriters were quickly replaced by increasingly powerful personal computers. Wang An Computer Co., Ltd. fell into a dilemma in the early 1990s because it did not respond to the trend of technology and demand development in a timely manner. But we can still see the influence of the old mechanical typewriter in the order of the 26 English letters on today's computer keyboard.

In the early 20th century, two types of Chinese typewriters, Shu-style and Yu-style, were tried out.

The invention of the typewriter was no less than an industrial revolution. It was actually the prototype of a computer keyboard. But in that era, this magical machine kept us from the shackles of writing with a pen, and began a new cultural process.

End of typewriter

Typewriters have been a good companion for people to print documents for more than a hundred years. Crackling typing and ink on paper were also not in movies.

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An indispensable scenario, but on April 27, 2011, Godrej and Boyce announced that they would cease operations. As the typewriter business was forced into a corner by the computer, they would stop producing typewriter products in Mumbai, India. This means that there will be no more mass-produced typewriters in the world. ^[1]

Brother, November 21, 2012

The company's typewriter production plant in North Wales was declared closed, and the last offline typewriter will enter the London Science Museum directly as a landmark of the era. Since 1985, the company has produced 5.9 million Wrexham typewriters. After 130 years, it was finally completely replaced by the computer.