
Typewriters: Mechanical Brilliance
Stuff You Should Know
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Typewriter - The First Typewriter in the World
In 1808 undisputed first typed letters were from Italy back then. A guy named William Austin Burt in the early 1800s invented a typographer clunky didn't work very well no. Another pre-type writer was built it was called the Hansen riding ball and this one is kind of interesting in that it used electromagnetic energies and electromagnetic battery to actually power this thing so it wasn't perfect but it was way ahead of its time.
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