59 results for typewriter

Naomi Mitchison

NM kept a book-length diary on her Russian visit, in summer 1932, writing it up en route, on one occasion gathering a crowd as she wrote with her portable typewriter on her lap at a railway station. She quotes in her autobiography some moving descriptions of encounters with Russian people, and mentions her excellent portraits
Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz, 1979.
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of British fellow travellers.
Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz, 1979.
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1901
The first lady typewriter (civil service...

The first lady typewriter (civil service typist) was appointed by Ireland's Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction .
O’Connor, Anne V. “The Revolution in Girls’ Secondary Education in Ireland, 1860-1910”. Girls Don’t Do Honours: Irish Women in Education in the 19th and 20th Centuries, edited by Mary Cullen, Women’s Education Bureau, 1987, pp. 31-54.
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23 June 1868
Christopher Latham Sholes, an American printer,...

Christopher Latham Sholes , an American printer, took out a patent on an early working model of the typewriter, which he and his associates had invented the previous year.
Singer, Charles et al., editors. A History of Technology. Clarendon, 1958, 8 vols.
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According to her biographer Elizabeth Adams Daniels , political writer Jessie White Mario was using some kind of typewriter shortly before this date.

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1878
Byron A. Brooks of the US patented the shift-key...

Byron A. Brooks of the US patented the shift-key typewriter, which introduced lower-case letters.
Adler, Michael H. The Writing Machine. Allen and Unwin, 1973.
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1905
The international standard for keyboard configuration...

Before standardization of keyboard layout, typists (most often women, referred to popularly as typewriters) could operate an extremely limited number of typewriter models. After 1905 it became possible to learn the configuration and operate any and all makes of typewriters.

Century of the Typewriter

Beeching, Wilfred A. Century of the Typewriter. Heinemann, 1974.