Speed typist

Mark Twain apparently was the first writer to submit a typed manuscript to a publisher. In 1883, nearly a decade after the first typewriter was introduced, Twain handed in a copy of Life on the Mississippi typed from his original, handwritten manuscript. Typewriters had evolved rapidly from a clunky machine that typed only in capitals to the snazzy Remington No. 2 of 1878, which featured a shift key that allowed it to produce both lower and upper case letters.

technology

Books

• The new way things work
  An illustrated encyclopedia of technology

Websites

• The virtual typewriter museum
  A tribute to ingenuity.

Books

• Click, clack, moo
  cows that type
• Clic, clac, muu
  vacas escritoras

Last updated by Ginger L. on March 21, 2011

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