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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 54. Chapters: Typewriter, Teleprinter, QWERTY, Henry Mill, Sholes and Glidden typewriter, Oliver Typewriter Company, Stenotype, Christopher Latham Sholes, Rasmus Malling-Hansen, Typographer, Smith Corona, Martin Tytell, Underwood Typewriter Company, Hansen Writing Ball, Lucien Stephen Crandall, Blickensderfer typewriter, E. Remington and Sons, Chinese typewriter, James Fields Smathers, Olivetti Lettera 22, Clarence Seamans, Royal Typewriter Company, Olivetti Lettera 32, Typewriter ribbon, Type-In, Tab stop, James Densmore, Imperial Typewriter Company, Correction tape, Data Recall Diamond, Japanese typewriter, Carlos Glidden, Typebar, Kyota Sugimoto, Correction paper, Typewriting Behavior, Cursor. Excerpt: A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical device with keys that, when pressed, cause characters to be printed on a medium, usually paper. Typically one character is printed per keypress, and the machine prints the characters by making ink impressions of type elements similar to the pieces of cast metal type (called sorts) used in movable type letterpress printing. From their invention in 1870 through much of the 20th century, typewriters were indispensable tools for recording the written word. Widely used by professional writers and in offices for decades, by the end of the 1980s, word processors and personal computers largely displaced typewriters in the settings where they previously had been ubiquitous in the western world. Notable typewriter manufacturer companies have included E. Remington and Sons, IBM, Imperial Typewriters, Oliver Typewriter Company, Olivetti, Royal Typewriter Company, Smith Corona, and Underwood Typewriter Company. Peter Mitterhofer, typewriter prototype 1864 Technisches Museum WienAlthough many modern typewriters have one of several similar designs, their invention was incremental, provided by numerous inventors working independently or in competition with each other over a series of decades. As with the automobile, telephone, and telegraph, a number of people contributed insights and inventions that eventually resulted in ever more commercially successful instruments. In fact, historians have estimated that some form of typewriter was invented 52 times as thinkers tried to come up with a workable design. In 1714, Henry Mill obtained a patent in Britain for a machine that, from the patent, appears to have been similar to a typewriter. The patent shows that this machine was actually created: " hath by his great study and paines & expence invented and brought to perfection an artificial machine or method for impressing or transcribing of letters, one after another, as in writing, whereby all writing whatsoever may be engrossed in pape