April 9, 1906: Inventing a typewriter

Although the typewriter mechanism of American inventor Robert Eugene Turner was quite simple at the time, it set the stage for the development of more modern typewriters later.

On April 9, 1906, American inventor Robert Eugene Turner registered his patent with an automatic typewriter, with a wheel capable of automatically returning the head when the line ran out. Turner's typewriter has two moving mechanisms, one is the engine to translate to hit the next, a motor to return the first position of the next line.

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 of developing mass media, a memorable milestone on the ascent of human civilization.

Image typewriter.

The general technique of this machine existed until the 1990s, when computer technology came into being with cheaper and more perfect printers. Since then the typewriter gradually used less, but the typewriter, the familiar sounds " Tep, tep, tep, tep, tep, . Ting! " Still remain in the minds of children people belong to a time.