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During the 1800s, many inventors tried their hand at creating a “writing machine.” It wasn’t until Christopher Latham Sholes took to the project in 1868 that the famous typewriter was created. Vintage typewriters revolutionized society over the next 50 years, simplifying and creating thousands of jobs. The first commercially available unit was the Model 1 Remington Typewriter. Enthusiasts may know that this first version had no shift key and typed only in capital letters. However, its keyboard was nearly identical to our QWERTY keyboards today, and over time was updated with shift, backspace, and number keys.
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