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## The HISTORY and DEVELOPMENT of TYPEWRITERS by G Tilghman Richards 1948 ## ## THIS BOOK: Classified FINE: This Book is the 1948 edition. Originally published in 1948. ## This book is in fine condition: some signs of storage colouring but is not ripped or torn. Plain beige cover with black text, loads of pictures and drawings of typewriters Wonderful typewriter history book .## ## INTRODUCTION: TODAY (in1948), the typewriter plays such an important part in both the business activities and the private correspondence of the whole world that there is no need to enlarge on its influence, which is apparent to all engaged in correspondence, book-keeping, invoicing, billing and listing, transcription of shorthand and legal documents, newspaper reporting, preparation of matter for lithographic reproduction, and many other fields of activity. On the other hand, we are today so familiar with the part taken by women in commercial life that one may overlook the very important part played by the typewriter in their so-called " emancipation." It opened up a new field for female employment. During the last fifty years, it has provided an occupation and living for millions of women, the figure being difficult to compute, but now well over half a million in Great Britain alone. The great new field of employment has occasioned the union of the twin accomplishments of shorthand writing and efficient high-speed typewriter operation, the names of Isaac Pitman and C. L. Sholes standing out as those of the two great pioneers in this connection. Today, acquiring skills in both arts is almost an essential qualification for high-class secretarial employment. ## ## This Handbook of the National Collection of Typewriters illustrates in considerable detail how the evolution of the modern machine has come about from the early trials and struggles of many inventors. In the early days, the urge to provide writing machines for blind persons was one of the main factors in experimental development. This desire seems particularly active in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth. Centuries, when some twenty-three different methods of making embossed printing were in existence, the best known were those devised by Lucas, Frere, Moon, and Braille. The latter published his system in 1829 and developed it further in 1834. It was offcially recognised in Paris in 1854.## ### INTERNATIONAL BUYERS: Please Note FREE SHIPPING IS UK ONLY. Please get in touch with me for a shipping quotation. ###.
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