At first, of course, all writing was done by hand.

The first person to patent a typewriter, Henry Mill. His thoughts are entered in the registers of the UK Patent Office in 1714. Unfortunately, Henry Mill has never managed to produce his car because of impatience with the production of it.

Several types of typewriters were invented after that, but were big and heavy, some look like the size of a piano, and actually took longer to use than writing itself, which of course be vanquished!

The first person to actually produce the first practical typewriter was Christopher Scholes, who patented his second model in 1868 (this machine was eventually exceed the speed of writing), with the help of SW Soule and G. Glidden.

Scholes sold the rights to the typewriter to typewriter, Densmore and Densmore more improved and its applicability using a marketing machine Philo Remington. It was not an immediate success, however. The first typewriter, Scholes and Glidden was sold in 1873. It was not until several years later that engineers have worked on the Remington machine and he improved it was a success and sales soared. The first typewriter sold for $ 125 About 5000 were sold over the next four years, and about 6 different models have evolved during this period due to improvements. On some machines return (carriage return) can be used by a pedal.