History of the Typewriter
Forfatter: Geo. Carl Mares
År: 1909
Forlag: Guilbert Pitman
Sted: London
Sider: 318
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CHAPTER IX .
European = made Typewriters.
(i) . French Writing Machines.
THE efforts made by some of the more prominent
workers' in France have already been referred
to. From a most interesting pamphlet entitled,
Les Machines d Ecrire Frangaises, written by a most pains-
taking historian, M. Georges Senechai, of the Institut
Stenographique de France, we have derived many additional
details, the substance of which we append, referring the
reader to the pamphlet itself for those more precise parti-
culars which it would be hardly fair to reproduce more
fully. The impression left on the mind is, that the workers
of those days did not possess a clear appreciation of the
possible ultimate end oi their labours, or the world might
have possessed a practicable typewriter long before it did.
For convenience, we present the matter in chronological
order.
Pingeron, in 1780, attempted to assist the blind by
enabling them to write by mechanical means. A long
description of his machine will be found in the Bulletin
de la Societe d' Encouragement pour VIndustrie nationale
for 1805. To show the disinterestedness of the workers
in those days, it is admitted that this effort inspired the
producer of the second machine to labour on the same
lines, and that the appreciative account of the second
machine is written or edited by the inventor of the first.
M. L’Hermina, in 1784, developed a machine also for
the purpose of assisting the blind to write. It was prac-
tically a table or desk, having a frame-work thereon, such
frame-work being so shaped and slotted as to assist the