The typewriter helped revolutionize the world of work and change the lives of working women in particular. It helped them launch their own businesses at a time when female employers were rare and became a vital weapon in the fight for women’s suffrage. Typewriters inspired novelists and artists, with American writer Mark Twain among the first to use what he called a “new-fangled writing machine”.
Inventors across Europe and America experimented with writing machines throughout the 19th century. Many of these devices were made for people with visual and hearing impairments. Instead of a keyboard, the operator turned a dial to choose a letter and then pressed a lever or key to print it on paper. They may not look like our idea of a typewriter, but they show there was a growing interest in devices that could print individual documents.
Keyboard typewriters in a form we would recognize today were first sold by American firm E. Remington & Sons in the 1870s. The first shipments arrived in Scotland in 1876. They were luxury devices which would have been out of reach for many people at the time, costing the equivalent of half the average annual salary.-nms.ac.uk
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Episode Resources
Evolution of the Desk Video
History of the Typewriter