When was the electric typewriter invented?

Answer 1

James Fields Smathers of Kansas City invented the first practical power-operated typewriter in 1914.

IBM began in 1941 to revolutionize the typewriter industry by inventing the IBM Executive Electric Typewriter.

Answer 2

Electric typewriters were, up until roughly the last 10 to 20 years, the standard equipment for producing professional looking docments of written material. You inserted a piece of paper, which turned around a hard rubber "platen" that looked a little like a baker's rolling pin. When you struck the keys (the keyboard was very similar to the modern computer keyboard) raised mirror-image letters engraved on strikers would quickly strike an inked "ribbon" suspended above the paper to produce a "typed" letter on the paper. The resulting material could appear to be of excellent quality for the higher-end machines, or could appear to be of grainy or uneven quality for the less expensive models. Typing was plagued with difficulties. With a standard typewriter you were not able to "edit" and correct your work before "printing", or producing the final material on paper. Typo's (any kind of spelling or spacing error) had to be corrected the moment you made them, with various knds of "white-out" techniques, because correcting them later became almost impossible. You would literally have to re-type an entire page to correct an error that you couldn't leave in the final version. It was possible, but difficult and time consuming to produce tables of data with typewriters. Sophisticated graphs and photo's were not possible to produce on the typewriters themselves. Some of the later models (before they were finally rendered obsolete by computer technology) even included some word processing technologies that helped with some of the many disadvantages of typing.

Answer 3

A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical device with a set of "keys" that, when pressed, cause characters to be printed on a medium, usually paper. For much of the 20th century, typewriters were indispensable tools for many professional writers and in business offices. By the end of the 1980s, word processor applications on personal computers had largely replaced the tasks previously accomplished with typewriters. Typewriters, however, remain popular in the developing world and among some niche markets, and for some office tasks.

Notable typewriter manufacturer companies have included E. Remington and Sons, IBM, Imperial typewriters, Oliver Typewriter Company, Olivetti, Royal Typewriter Company, Smith Corona, and Underwood Typewriter Company.

Answer 4

That's a good question, well here is the answer. A typewriter is an old machine that was invented before computers. Its was used to typer letters or whatever onto a piece of paper using ink. Kind of like a manual printer. Here is a pictuer of one. It looks a bit tricky to figure out, but I have one and it isn't. Hope it answers your question. =)

Answer 5

it was invented in 1962 and presented at the 1962 century 21 worlds fair in seattle

Answer 6

william austin burt