The History of Typing

Although there are many techniques, many stories, and many Samples of people's opinions on the exact history of typing, the very first Published account of typing was the invention of the typewriter. It was invented by Christopher L. Sholes, in 1868. There were a few bumps and hiccups along the way, but eventually the typewriter was born. Now even though Mrs. Sholes invented it, he was an engineer and couldn't market the Invention himself.

He began toying with idea of selling the invention to a company who could market it. After some time contemplating, he did just that. In 1873 the very first patented typewriter, invented by Mr. Sholes was sold to the Remington company, they bought the invention and marketed it in a very resourceful way, and although it was a rocky start, it grew as no one could have for seen.

Even this particular one is named as the first there are many patent that date back over 100 years, but none of them actually ever made it past that stage. And so, the typewriter was born, but the use of it did not go over well for quite some time. People did not see the use in typing as apposed to writing something out by long hand. Everyone had their own opinion.

The typewriter caught on in small scale first, with a sort of small community of out side the box thinkers. Eventually, there came two different keying styles. There was a regular method much like the one we still use today, and a second method much like the one stenographers use, in where the capital letters where on the same key but one on the top and one on the bottom. The argument was, lengthy in that both sides had their points, to settle this ever long argument, they begin having contest between the two schools of thought on the subject, to see who's idea of typing was really faster. Once the contest caught on the business owners began attended, and boy did they like what they saw. They became very interested in the process, and eventually began looking at a new duty as
a typist, for their companies.