Hey dear Hive friends, first of all I would like to wish you all a pleasant day and hope you have a weekend full of positive experiences! In this post, I would like to discuss an interesting topic and hope you can learn something new.
You can see two old typewriters here and both have one thing in common, the nostalgic flair and I think it's an interesting topic to go into the history behind it and to present how letters were written back then. One model is from Olympia and the other from the defense industry rheinmetall and at that time people had to write almost everything by hand and some inventors took advantage of this to explore new works to make this task easier. One of the most important inventions before the typewriters to simplify writing was probably the book printing which can be traced back to the 15th century and the first patent for typewriters was filed a few centuries later in 1714 by the English inventor Henry Mill (1683 - 1771). Over time, more and more inventors came to revolutionize this technology and the next big milestone was probably achieved in the 19th century by the American defense company Remington & Sons, which began the first mass production of typewriters.
It didn't take long for typewriters to flood the whole country and enjoyed great popularity and more and more factories were also built in Europe to meet the increasing demand for typewriters. The first models were still very slow at that time and who was responsible for the next big milestone is the inventor Xaver Wagner (1837 - 1907) who improved the mechanics so that you could write much faster. With the change of time, more manufacturers were built and more and more factories made use of this high demand and among them were also many defense companies and the best-known manufacturers of typewriters were probably Olympia, Rheinmetall, IBM, Mercedes, Smith Corona, Remington, Olivetti and many more. Typewriters were still very popular for a long time and were replaced by computers and printers over time and the format of the computer keyboard can also be found in the Sholes-Glidden typewriter.
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