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First Commerical Typewriter
Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule -
Patent
Patent (US 79,265) was sold for $12,000 to Densmore and Yost. Became Sholes and Glidden Type-Writer. -
First Typewriter
Had QWERTY keyboard layout -
Shift Key
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Ad
"Get Out I'm Busy" -
Electric Typewriter
Blickensderfer Manufacturing Company, of Stamford, Connecticut,. -
Noiseless Typewriter Company
failed because consumers liked the "clickety-clack" sound. -
Remington Electric Typewriters
2,500 electric typewriters had been produced. Remington Electric typewriters were produced powered by Northeast's motors -
Delco Purchases Northeast Electric
now spun off as Electromatic Typewriters -
IBM buys for $1M
IBM Electric Typewriter Model 01[22] in 1935. By 1958 IBM was deriving 8% of its revenue from the sale of electric typewriters. -
IBM Selectric typewriter
Replaced the typebars with a spherical element (or typeball) slightly smaller than a golf ball, with reverse-image letters molded into its surface -
End of an Era/Decline
Personal computers are in more offices and corporations are using computers -
Coming to an End
IBM sells typewriter division to Lexmark -
Legacy
The QWERTY layout
Conventions like double space, space bar, tab bar. -
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Adaption to Technology
The type writer is now an antique compaared to the modern day computers, laptops, tablets, and phones
