Engineering:Typographer (typewriter)
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Short description: America's first typewriter
The typographer was an early typewriter invented by William Austin Burt.[1] Intended to aid in office work, the machine worked by using a lever to press characters onto paper one at a time.[2][3] It was the first typewriting machine to be patented in the United States, although Pellegrino Turri had made one in Italy in 1808.[4] Perhaps because of its slow speed, or because there was not yet a wide market for typewriters, it was not a commercial success.[2][3]
The working model that Burt constructed for his 1829 patent was destroyed in the 1836 Patent Office fire.[2][5]
References
- ↑ Wyckoff, W. O.; Jones, R. McKean (1900). "Typewriters". Universal Cyclopaedia, Vol. 12. D. Appleton. p. 7. OCLC 861656957. https://books.google.com/books?id=_y_mAAAAMAAJ.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Burt, William Austin". The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. 18. J. T. White. 1922. pp. 367–368. OCLC 164589128. https://books.google.com/books?id=vPEpAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA375.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Peters, Gary (October 24, 1979). "World's First Writing Machine". The Sheboygan Press (Sheboygan, Wisconsin): p. 47. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/54846887/the-sheboygan-press/.
- ↑ Revett, Kenneth (September 15, 2008). Behavioral Biometrics: A Remote Access Approach. John Wiley & Sons. p. 222. ISBN 978-0470997932. https://books.google.com/books?id=WCuSUufRewoC&q=pellegrino+turri+typewriter&pg=PA222. Retrieved June 28, 2014.
- ↑ "First Letter Ever Written on a Typewriter Finds its Way Here". The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa): p. 5. July 10, 1922. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/55580943/.
Further reading
- Adler, Michael H. (1973). The Writing Machine, A History of the Typewriter. George Allen & Unwin Ltd. ISBN 0-04-652004-X. https://books.google.com/books?id=uQB5QgAACAAJ.
- Linnoff, Victor M. (2000). The Typewriter, an illustrated history. Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-41237-7. https://books.google.com/books?id=sT2_wAEACAAJ.
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