Almanac: The first commercially-successful typewriter
On March 1, 1873, the Remington company started making the first commercially-successful typewriter, marketed as the Sholes and Glidden (or Remington No. 1) typewriter.
Over time, the shift key became standard – a CAPITAL improvement, you might say.
And typewriters became a fixture of the modern office, not to mention a part of our popular culture, as in Jerry Lewis' comic pantomime to composer Leroy Anderson's "The Typewriter":
For more info:
Mesa Typewriter Exchange, Mesa, Ariz. (Facebook)typewriters.comThe Virtual Typewriter MuseumSmith Corona Typewriter Museum
Story produced by Robert Marston.
Passage: "Sunday Morning" remembers
