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Romance of the Typewriter 195 order to demonstrate the present magnitude of the business, which has only been in existence a little more than forty years, it may be stated that over 500,000 stenographers and typists to-day owe their living to the Remington typewriter. In the United States alone the Company finds situations for approxi- mately 100,000 typists per annum, whose salaries aggregate over £1,200,000 per year. Other countries can point to similar results upon a corresponding scale. In the early days extreme difficulty was experi- enced in rendering the single selling agency remunera- tive. But to-day selling establishments are main- tained in 738 cities throughout the world, each of which is a fully equipped organisation, and of which total 324 are in Europe and 240 in North America. The department, which passed through many vicissi- tudes some thirty years ago with indifferent results, now provides employment for 7,500 persons, exclu- sive of the vast number of mechanics and others who are engaged in the actual manufacture of the machine. The extent to which the typewriter has con- quered the world may be gathered from the fact that the Remington Company furnishes 1,100 different keyboards, this total including keyboards for writing in 156 different languages and dialects. And this concerns only the pioneer and parent company. If the figures for the typewriter industry as a whole could be marshalled, it would afford an impressive insight to the manner in which commerce, industry, and even private life has been revolutionised by an invention of contemporary history.