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Romance of the Typewriter 191 were full of enthusiasm and initiative, combined with stern business qualities, and they infused a force into the work which hitherto had been lacking. The sales went ahead with astonishing rapidity. The task was prosecuted with such diligence and energy that within two years another change was deemed advis- able. Up to 1886 the manufacture of the typewriter had been regarded somewhat in the character of a side issue by the gunmaking firm. Now it was decided to incorporate it as a separate business, because thereby it would become easier to carry out any improvements in slight details taught by experience, as well as the embodiment of any new features which time and commercial developments might render necessary. In other words, it became as incumbent to devote as much whole-hearted care and attention to the machine and its parts as were given to the guns. Messrs. Wyckoff, Seamans and Benedict there- upon approached the firm of Remington and Sons, and explained their proposal. They offered to pur- chase the young invention, together with all the plant which had been laid down for its production, as well as all contracts and other arrangements. That is to say, they were ready to buy out the typewriter depart- ment lock, stock, and barrel, and thus relieve the gun- makers of any further interest or liabilities connected therewith. The gunmaking organisation agreed to the pro- posal. With the financial and other assistance of a few friends, the Remington Standard Manufacturing Company was founded. The name Remington was continued by arrangement, inasmuch as by now it had become familiar to the commercial world. This