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Typewriters: Mechanical Brilliance

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Then in 1872 the Remington Company Sold Their Shares in a Typewriter to a Guy Named James Dinsmore

Scholes teamed with another inventor named Matias Schwalback and made an improved typewriter within the same year that he sold the patent. In 1872 they sold their shares in this invention to a guy an oil guy named James Dinsmore who will factor in uh in a pretty big way in a minute. The Remington Company which had built or manufactured tons of guns for the Civil War found that their gun market had suddenly dried up.

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