Typewriters

In 1714, Henry Mill got a patent for a British typewriter but that is all that we know of this invention; it was supposed to be similar to an actual typewriter. Other early developers of typewriting machines were people like Pellegrino Turri, who also invented carbon paper. Many of these early machines like Turri's, were created to help the blind write. In 1829, William Austin Burt patented a machine called the Typowriter.The science Museum in London describes it merely as the first writing mechanism whose creative design was documented. They say that Turri's invention was made after it. The typewriter was harder to write with than just handwriting. Because the typographer used a dial, rather than keys, to select each character, it was called an index typewriter rather than a keyboard typewriter. Index typewriters of that time period didn't even look like the more modern typewriters.