141 years, the first typewriter of mankind

Tep, tep, tep, tep, tep, . Ting! On June 23, 1868, 141 years ago, Christopher Latham Sholes's typewriter was patented on 79,265.

In fact, it was not the first typewriter to receive a patent. But it was the first typewriter to be put into mass production. An important step on the way to develop mass media, a memorable milestone on the ascent of human civilization.

With the help of two partners, Sholes completed his typewriter in 1867. After receiving a patent on June 23, 1868, Sholes licensed production to Remington & Sons, the company that produces floating guns. language. The first commercial typewriter, the Remington Model 1, was born in 1873.

Christopher Latham Sholes (Photo: Corbis)

The idea is based on Gutenberg's mobile print principle, considered the most important invention in the history of mass media.

It has many special points such as paper that are placed in a rubber-lined rubber roller, with reversible winding cores for movable ink and scissors. The general technique of this machine existed until the 1990s, when computer technology came into being with increasingly cheap, and more perfect, printers.

Since then typewriter gradually used less, but typewriters, familiar sounds " Tep, tep, tep, tep, tep, . Ting! " Still remain in the minds of people belonging to a time.

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Christopher Latham Sholes was born on February 14, 1981, in Pennsylvania. He learned printing when he worked with his assistant for 4 years for a newspaper near his residence, but then he and his parents moved to Wisconsin to live.

Later he was involved in printing activities and eventually moved to print jobs for legislative journals in Wisconsin. This time he began to have relationships with politicians and this had a major impact on his career later. He started moving to journalism and eventually participated in political activities. He worked as an editor for many newspapers, at one time he became the provincial post director and was elected for three terms at the legislature.

In the early 1860s, he was appointed to work at the customs at Milwaukee. This new job allowed him to have free time to pursue a passion - invention, and he spent a lot of time pursuing his passion. With the help of two friends, it took him several years to create a machine for page numbering of a book. He and his friends found that the page numbering machine could type words on the paper, from which he sought to research, improve and in 1868 he was awarded a patent for the invention of the typewriter. . It took him five years for efforts to promote his invention but failed. On March 1, 1872, he sold the copyright to Remington Arms and earned $ 12,000. The company sought to perfect the design and launched the highly successful Remington-type typewriter.