The Story of the Typewriter, 1873-1923

"The Story of the Typewriter, 1873-1923" by the Herkimer County Historical Society is a remembrance of the creation and changes of the typewriter during fifty years, pointing out how it changed how people talked to each other and did business. It shows how the typewriter affected society, especially how it helped women gain economic freedom and how it pushed society forward. The book starts by explaining the history of how the typewriter was invented, starting in Ilion, New York. It talks about how people slowly understood there was a need for a machine that could write, listing early tries to make one, from Henry Mill's idea in the 1700s to when Christopher Latham Sholes and his friends made the first working typewriter in the late 1860s. This sets the scene to understand how the typewriter improved, how it changed society, and the important people who helped create it, explaining how this invention changed communication forever.