or thoughts. The typewriter was the first machine to write in history. Among many typewriters, IBM Selectric I typewriter was the most revolutionary one. Selectric typewriter was not only a step stone for the next typewriter generations, but it also was a big part of historical event in feminism and the speed and the convenience of the model helped the work-force in the history. There could not be computers, iPads, or many other electronic items without the history of typewriters, especially the breakthrough
The typewriter is one of America's greatest inventions. The typewriter was a big successes during the era it was invented, it became a very helpful tool for anyone who had to write long papers and it helped lead lots of other people to evolve it. The typewriter helped sped up the written world. But few people paid much attention, because they were too busy reading what the typewriter had written. The story of the typewriter begins in 1868, when Christopher Latham Sholes came up with a simple writing
efficient and user-friendly. The typewriter for instance has changed shape drastically. Over the years, it became electronic and then practically obsolete with the rise of computers and the birth of the keyboard. In the beginning the first manufactured typewriters looked like sewing machines. This is not unusual since Remington, who made the typewriters also manufactured sewing machines at the same time. Created by Sholes, Glidden, and Soule, the first Remington typewriters came with a foot pedal (like
at my laptop to write this response paper about California Typewriter, a small part of me feels ashamed it’s not on a typewriter. After viewing the film it’s hard not to feel that way, even just a little bit. Leaving the theater I envisioned writing this response paper on a typewriter, scanning it into the computer, and submitting it that way. That on creative hopeful idea quickly died, though a bit faster than the demise of the typewriter itself. Before realizing the papers had to be turned into
1890-1938: The early years IBM was incorporated in the state of New York on June 15, 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company. But its origins can be traced back to 1890, during the height of the Industrial Revolution, when the United States was experiencing waves of immigration. The U.S. Census Bureau knew its traditional methods of counting would not be adequate for measuring the population, so it sponsored a contest to find a more efficient means of tabulating census data. The winner
History of the PC “If one thinks about it, it is truly remarkable how far the technology has advanced since the first digital computer was introduced in 1946. The ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator) was designed and built at the University of Pennsylvania. It weighed 30-tons and took up 1500 square feet of floor space. The first computer developed in Europe was the EDSAC (Electronic Delay-Storage Automatic Computer). This machine was built at Cambridge University in 1949.