The first patented typewriter was created by an Englishman named Henri Mill in 1714, although it was not fully developed. More than a century later, the first typewriter designed for blind individuals appeared in the United States. The inventor of this groundbreaking machine was William Bert, who received a patent for the device known as “Typewriter for the Blind” in 1829.
Today, such machines no longer exist. However, numerous inventors contributed to the evolution of the typewriter. In 1833, Cksave Progen from France developed a typewriter with a keyboard and levers for each symbol.
In 1843, Tracterobe, an American, invented a typewriter with symbol keys arranged around a central copper wheel. He would hand-crank to the necessary letter and apply ink to the symbol to print it onto paper.
By 1856, a new type of typewriter was introduced, featuring keys arranged in a circular pattern, where pressing a key would imprint the character at a point in the center. This operational principle has been utilized in modern typewriters. The first mass-produced typewriter was created by three Americans: C. Shoilz, S. Soil, and C. Glidden in 1873. It had several unique features, such as paper placed on a rubber cylinder with an ink ribbon, a core that reversed the ribbon direction, and a movable carriage. Subsequently, portable typewriters and electric typewriters were developed.
However, in recent years, typewriters have made way for computers.
