The History of Typewriters

Where would we be without the invention of the typewriter and the QWERTY keyboard?

Christopher Sholes invented the first typewriter in Milwaukee in 1868.

This is what my Grandma Nitz used at the hardware store. Source: "old typewriter (1 of 1)" by newelly54 is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

This was an electric typewriter.

This is what I used in college

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