History of the Typewriter

-271- In 1894, Franklin Remington, a son of Samuel Reming- ton, together with Zalmon O. Sholes, organised the Reming- ton-Sholes Company. Zalmon G. Sholes of this company was a son of C. Latham Sholes, the inventor of the first Remington Typewriter. “ Upon the advice of its attorneys the Remington- Sholes Company was instructed to proceed with the use of that name, the attorneys advising that so long as they used the name honestly and without intention to deceive or confuse, they had a perfect right to use the name. “ In 1898, four years after the organization of the Remington-Sholes Company, the manufacturers of the Remington Standard sued the Remington-Sholes Company with a view to making them abandon the use of the name Remington in combination with their typewriter. In 1901 Judge Wheeler, of Vermont, rendered a decision implying that the Remington-Sholes Company had not the right to use the name Remington, or even a trade-mark name “ Rem-Sho.” under which their machines were sold. “ In 1901 the Remington-Sholes Company complied with the court decisions and changed its name to the Fay- Sholes Typewriter Company. “ The decision of Judge Wheeler was appealed from in 1903 to the United States Appellate Court in New York, which partly reversed Judge Wheeler’s decision, thereby giving the Fay-Sholes Company the right to use the trade- mark name“ Rem-Sho.” From this decision an appeal was taken to the United States Supreme Court with the result that the Fay-Sholes Company, originally the Remington- Sholes Company, was sustained in its position in every point.” Glove Typewriter. This curious piece of work can hardly have been intended as a practical writing instru- ment. It consisted of a pair of gloves made of wash leather, with embossed india-rubber type mounted thereon and distributed at various parts of the fingers, the capitals being worn on the left hand, the lower case on the right. The ink was supplied by a couple of pads, fixed to the palms of the gloves. The act of shutting the hand conveyed the ink to the type, which were embossed in India-rubber. All the operator had then to do was to dab that particular part of the glove required on to the paper, but how regularity or alignment was to be secured, nobody can tell. Hanson-Lee. This peculiar machine is a distinct and radical departure from all its predecessors in the art