#type-writer

[todaysdocument]

Sholes, Glidden & Soule. Type-writer. June 23, 1868

Series: Patent Case Files, 1/1/1836 - 12/31/1976. Record Group 241: Records of the Patent and Trademark Office, 1836 - 1978

The predecessor of the first commercially successful typewriter, C. Lantham Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel W. Soule received a patent for their "type-writer” 150 years ago on June 23, 1868. In their application, they wrote that “the type-writer is the simplest, most perfectly adapted to its work…and in every way the best of all machines yet designed for the purpose.”

[biblioitesmgda]

Gracias a él los escritores tuvieron una nueva herramienta con la cual crearon muchos libros maravillosos.

Junio 23.

[theparisreview]

Life Before QWERTY

The history of the typewriter is, as with the history of the personal computer after it, rife with collaboration, ingenuity, betrayal, setbacks, lucre, acrimony, misguided experimentation, and bickering white men. There are rough analogs for Bill Gates and for Steves Jobs and Wozniak (though there’s no one so delirious and insane as Steve Ballmer)—and one such... Read More »

On this day in 1898, the inventor of the QWERTY keyboard patented his first “type-writer.”

[dreamer-youandme]

[whatsecretsdoestheworldhide]

I wont ever forget this.

So I have really old grandparents and for Christmas I had gotten a new laptop and decided to show my 89 year old grandmother "How animals eat their food" why? dont even ask, though she was laughing and I got yelled at for her choking. I have no Freaking idea. ANYWAYS, with my help she took my laptop and started examining the keyboard, I didn't know what the hell she was doing so I asked her

"Grandma? What are you doing" she proceeded on to answer with

"Oh nothing just trying to see if the Keyboard is situated the same way as a type-writer"

I don't think I ever laughed so hard in my life omfg. I love my grandparents. 

[definition-of-katherine]

[bexinthecity05]

Tom Hanks Reddit Summary

"Hanks’ favorite model is an Hermes 2000, and he recommended that typewriters are best reserved for love-letters rather than modern academic research papers for unforgiving non-analog professors." (Referring to typewriters) I can't imagine the love-letters he can write on a typewriter but this made me swoon!!!