All About Inventions and Discoveries
The Romance of modern scientific and mechanical Achievements
Forfatter: Frederick A. Talbot
År: 1916
Forlag: Cassell and Company, LTD
Sted: London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne
Sider: 376
UDK: 6(09)
With a Colour Plate and numerous Black-and-White Illustrations.
Søgning i bogen
Den bedste måde at søge i bogen er ved at downloade PDF'en og søge i den.
Derved får du fremhævet ordene visuelt direkte på billedet af siden.
Digitaliseret bog
Bogens tekst er maskinlæst, så der kan være en del fejl og mangler.
i92 All About Inventions
severance of the typewriter section of the business
fortunately proved wise, because the young invention
escaped the financial and other disasters which shook
the old-established gunmaking firm to its founda-
tions, and which otherwise would have seriously
jeopardised the fate of the typewriter.
But while such desperate efforts to install the
Remington in the commercial world were in progress,
it was subjected to attacks from other directions.
Yost, after the firm of Locke, Yost and Bates were
deprived of the sole selling agency for the machine,
feared that he would lose all interest in a new business
to which he had devoted so much time, effort, and
money. Accordingly, he endeavoured to evolve and
perfect a machine would would become a powerful
rival. He was confronted with a superhuman task,
inasmuch as the patents protecting the Remington
were so comprehensive as to render it difficult to
build a machine without infringing the pioneer claims
somewhere or other.
Yost strove desperately to consummate his ambi-
tion but was foiled. The machine which was built
to his designs was noticeable for having a double
keyboard—capital and small letters respectively—
thereby dispensing with the shift-key. In reality, the
double keyboard idea was forced upon him because
it was impossible to use the two characters for each
type-bar without infringing the shift-key patent.
Ultimately, Yost discovered that it was virtually
impossible to build a machine which would be com-
pletely clear of the Remington patents, and therefore
he applied for a licence to build and vend his own
machine. The privileges which were extended to