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This excerpt from a World War II-era instructional film includes an overview of early typewriters. Courtesy ofthe Prelinger Archive, Basic Typing is 30 minutes long and available in two parts (part I, part II), in case youhappen to be extremely interested in a career as a typist, circa 1944.
Higher resolution images of these historic models of typewriters are available thanks to Wikipedia. The firstmodel mentioned in the film, the Typographer, patented by William Austin Burt in 1829, was America's firsttypewriter. An illustration of Burt demonstrating the device and a diagram from the patent are below.
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The Sholes & Glidden Type-Writer, below, was the first to feature a QWERTY keyboard, in 1873.
For more images of typewriters through the ages, see Nicholas Jackson's "Last Typewriter Factory in the WorldShuts Its Doors."
For more films from the Prelinger Archive, visit http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger.
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