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=[]= =[]= = ** [] ** = = **//__Early Production__//** = Typewriters were made first in 1866 by Robert C. Soles. Densmore bought the rights and sold the typerwriter. It always used the QWERTY keyboard. It wrote in all lowercase the first time it was sold. Only five thousand were sold in five years of selling. John Masefield was the first person to submit a typed manuscript. There was no spacing or line advance. The original typewriter looked like a sewing machine. There was a patent for a typographer before this was made, but it used a dial instead of a keyboard to select letters. Brazilian people think that Fr. Azevedo was the first to make a typewriter, but there is still controversy over it. Malling-Hansen made a writing ball that could type much faster than a person could write by hand. The letters were specifically placed so that the most used letters were placed nearest the fastest writing fingers on the writing ball. On the typewriter made by Sholes and Glidden, you could always see your typing as you wrote.
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= //__Later Changes__// = In 1895, people began inventing typewriters that you could see the actual writing. You could never write in more than one ink. Shift keys made manufacturing a lot easier because now typewriters could type both lower and upper case with one key, and numbers could also type symbols. Some people believe that the style of the QWERTY keyboard was so that the typewriter salesman could write “typewriter” with just the first row of letters rather than have to search around for the letters. Others believe it was made this was so that keys that were used often were placed away from each other so they wouldn’t stick. Not true. E, R, and T are all next to each other. Because the shift key often needed to be held down for a while with the pinkie, a “Shift lock” was invented, now known as the “Caps lock”. Noiseless designs were made, but they didn’t work and didn’t take off.

= //__More Changes and Electric Typewriters__// = Thomas Jefferson made the first electric typewriter in 1870. It was first produced in 1923. IBM made the first typewriter with a type ball in 1901. It also made the first typewriter with a carbon film ribbon that, with later changes, was easy to replace once used up. An issue with this was official documents could easily be snuck out. Some types had a correction so you didn’t need white out to correct work. The typewriter did it for you. It could also change between pica type (10 characters per inch) and elite type (12 characters per inch). Unfortunately, it was all mono-spaced, so an “a” took up as much space as an “i”. In the 1970’s, some of IBM’s machines used interchangeable ribbon cartridges, including fabric, film, erasing, and two-color versions. In the 1990’s, a bunch of typewriters came out with printer-like qualities. Some even had a spelling and grammar checker. In 1990, IBM sold its typewriter division.