On August 26, 1843, the typewriter was invented. Or rather, the titled patent has been granted “improvements in machine for printing”. In short, the patent was for “improvements to the printing machine”, but for some time everyone has agreed that the one imagined by Charles Thurber, born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1803, was the very first version of the typewriter. He was an inventor who was involved in making firearms. According to the book “The Marvel of Modern Mechanism (1901)”, “He was the first to put a sheet of paper in a roll and give it a longitudinal motion following the pressure of keys connected to letters and spaces”. Thurber’s car, by his own admission, was “slow and crude”, slow and rough, and above all it was never produced.
There was only one specimen, now on display in a museum in Worcester. The description that Thurber himself made in the patent application is interesting: “This machine is intended as a substitute for writing, when writing with the pen is not convenient due to the incompetence of the writer. But it is especially designed to be used by those who cannot see and who, by touching the keys, will be able to determine the connected letters and then put their thoughts on paper. But it’s also meant for nervous people who can’t write. It is useful for keeping a public record that can look like it was printed. And it is designed for those who wish to keep a legible diary of daily events, so that it can be read easily or passed on to others ”.
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