Blog Post #8

 EOTO Technology 

    During the presentations, I learned about the Typewriter. The first Typewriter was granted by Queen Anne of England on January 7th, 1714. An English Engineer, Henry Mill created the typewriter and there is no documentation or record of this invention. 

The first United States typewriter was created by William Austin Burt in Detroit. It was developed in 1828 and his patent was approved by President Andrew Jackson that year as well. He first called his invention the "Typographer." The only model of this typographer was later destroyed in a fire in 1836. 

The first working typewriter was made in September 1828. The inventor of the first typewriter was Christopher Latham Sholes from Milwaukee. His typewriter was patented in June 1868. The typewriter was invented because Christopher Sholes was creating an invention that could number book pages. Then he later decided to make a machine that could type words and numbers. He also invented the keyboard that we still use today. 

The sales of the typewriter became extremely popular in 1908. The business world changed forever with this invention. It created a new way for people to communicate and also how they get their information. There are many ways the typewriter has changed our lives today and how we work. It helps fill out forms, type envelopes, and create checks. Those are just a few examples, it also helps us do more work on computers, which most people use in today's world.

Funeral Parlors are still using typewriters today; that is just one well-known business that continues to use them. Prisons also continue to use them. Prisoners will use typewriters for many different reasons, one being to share their feelings and use them as a way of communicating. Some senior citizens also use typewriters instead of switching over to computers because that is what they are comfortable using. Local and federal governments use typewriters because it is a better and safer way to protect important information. It is much easier for someone to hack into a computer to steal information than it is to hack into a typer writer.