What is Typewriter ?

Except with electronic typewriters, typing mistakes are permanent, but can be removed with help of correction fluid, as opposed to a computer where backspace or delete key can be used to remove the mistake.

A machine for writing in characters similar to those produced by printer's type by means of keyboard-operated types striking a ribbon to transfer ink or carbon impressions onto the paper

Tourney recalled that Williams kept a typewriter in his room and wrote frequently.

That it was invented for typewriters in the 1800s(!) and that it's designed less to be easy or ergonomic and more to keep common letters far apart to prevent mechanical jams.

ON June 23, 1868, Carlos Glidden and Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for their invention of the first commercially successful typewriter.

The English inventor Henry Mill had patented a similar machine long before in 1714, but it seems never to have gone into production.

Sholes’ invention was originally designed to print page numbers on books. It was Glidden who suggested using it to type letters.

The QWERTY keyboard was designed in 1873 to put common letter pairs far apart to reduce the chance of keys jamming and raise typing speed.

The longest common words using only the top row of letters on a typewriter are ‘proprietor’, ‘perpetuity’, ‘repertoire’ and ‘typewriter’ itself.

The word ‘qwertyuiop’ also now appears in the Oxford English Dictionary.

But the longest top-row word of all is ‘rupturewort’ (a plant used to treat hernias).

Peru is the only country whose name can be typed on one row of a standard keyboard…

and Alaska is the only one-row US state.

The Guinness World Record for typing a given 103 character text on a keyboard using only the nose is 46.30 seconds.

According to Mark Twain, his “Tom Sawyer” in 1876 was the first novel written on a typewriter.

The typewriter and computers today use the same key layout.

The longest word that could be types on a typewriter with only the left hand is stewardesses.

On a typewriter, surprisingly typewriter is one of the longest words able to be typed using one row of letters.

Christopher Latham Sholes intentionally placed letters apart to slow down typing so jamming would not occur.

Typewriters keyboards were known as Qwerty keyboards because that is the first six letters along the top.

Skepticism is the longest typed word on the typewriter in which you alternate hands every letter.

The first attempt ever made to create and patent a typewriter in 1714.

Most early typewriter would have a bell to warn the typist that the were nearing the end of the paper.

Every single typewriter was different in its own way, no two were exactly the same.

one of the first typewriters made which was not completely successful was made for a competition.