The Writer's Almanac from Sunday, June 23, 2013 "Do You Love Me?" by Robert Wrigley, from Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems. © Penguin, 2006. ORIGINAL TEXT AND AUDIO - 2013 It was on this day in 1868 that the typewriter was patented, by Christopher Sholes in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In 1873, he sold the patent to the Remington Arms Co., a famous gun maker, for $12,000. There had been typewriters before, but they weren't very practical — it took longer to type a letter than to write it by hand. The first commercial typewriter based on Sholes' design went on the market in 1874.
The Writer's Almanac from Sunday, June 23, 2013
The Writer's Almanac from Sunday, June 23…
The Writer's Almanac from Sunday, June 23, 2013
The Writer's Almanac from Sunday, June 23, 2013 "Do You Love Me?" by Robert Wrigley, from Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems. © Penguin, 2006. ORIGINAL TEXT AND AUDIO - 2013 It was on this day in 1868 that the typewriter was patented, by Christopher Sholes in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In 1873, he sold the patent to the Remington Arms Co., a famous gun maker, for $12,000. There had been typewriters before, but they weren't very practical — it took longer to type a letter than to write it by hand. The first commercial typewriter based on Sholes' design went on the market in 1874.