History of the Typewriter

 The Jackson. This machine was made at Bridport, Conn., U.S.A., by a Company registered in 1905, with a capital of half a million dollars, but it was never actually put on the market. As will be seen on reference to the illustration, and comparing it with that of the Victorian Model Maskelyne, there is a great resemblance between the two machines, although the Jackson was not a differential spacer. The type-bar movement was very similar to that of the Williams. Fig. 201. It was the type-oar, ink-pad, and visible writing variety, worked with a single shift-key and thirty-eight keys (affect- ing seventy-six characters or letters). The promoters made much of the fact that it was a real sight writer, that is to say when once a piece of work was executed, every character remained clearly visible, and was not curled up into a paper receiver or passed away under towers of keys. Naturally, a great claim was made on account of the supposed increased power of blow arising from direct printing, and the reduction in the number of parts was urged as proof of its simplicity and strength. Johnson Book Typewriter. A Company under the foregoing title was registered in 1896, for the purpose of manufacturing and selling an improved machine to write in books and records. Its capital was $100,000, in shares of $100, all of which was taken up, but if the machine was ever marketed, of which we have no evidence, then it has long since passed into the ewigkcit. The Kent Typewriter. The illustration is engraved from a circular issued in 1892 by the Kent Writing Machine Company, by which they were then endeavouring to sell “ an additional issue of three thousand shares of its capital stock at $1 per share,” by which it was hoped to raise