History of the Typewriter

— 2 — principle of visible writing has now been adopted almos universally, as well as the introduction of bi-chrome ribbons. Every machine calling itself “ standard is now fitted wit a built-in tabulator as part of the machine, without additional whereas but say £ur or five years ago this dev.ce would cost anything from two to five pounds additional, and the back space key, which is, without doubt, the most useful adjunct* ever supplied to a typewriter, is found even on the lower priced instruments. , th? line Development may therefore be looked foi along the of new uses and adaptations of the writing machine to p pose at his time not thought of, particularly .n■ "ion with invoicing, bookkeeping, etc. And various additional conveniences will necessarily be added in order to render the machine more and more suitable to these extended app cations Probably, we do not know, but probably an auto matk carriage return may be one of the first improvements. A machine capable of using two styles of type such as roman and italic, in conjunction with a compound shift key arrange ment, might appeal to many people. We quite expect that in this volume many little slips m y be found. As far as it has been possible, every statement has been verified, and wherever a machine has been accessit either in England or in our visits abroad, we have draw the account of the machine from a personal inspection e shall be glad to have particulars of any errors’ as f o machines not described herein, either new ones or old new models of old ones, and will acknowledge, gratefully, wouldliketo'add a word of acknowledgment to various sources of information. To certain publications of Mi. A K. Morton, to the files of the Phonographic World, Typewriter Topics, Office Appliances, the Scientific American, and ot e publications (a complete list of which it is imP0S^e to for sheer lack of space) we are especially indebted. Many of the illustrations have been prepared from the roughes possible originals, and a word of thanks should therefore be given to the bJockmakers, Messrs. Andre and Sleigh, td., of Watford, as well as the printers, Messrs. Hunt Barnard & Co., of Aylesbury, without whose assistance this book had never appeared. The Author.