The Story of the Typewriter, 1873-1923: Published in Commemoration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Invention of the Writing MachinePress of A. H. Kellogg Company, 1923 - 138 pagine |
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Pagina 71 - Gentlemen: Please do not use my name in any way. Please do not even divulge the fact that I own a machine. I have entirely stopped using the Type-Writer, for the reason that I never could write a letter with it to anybody without receiving a request by return mail that I would not only describe the machine but state what progress I had made in the use of it, etc., etc. I don't like to write letters, and so I don't want people to know that I own this curiosity breeding little joker.
Pagina 17 - ... in paper or parchment so neat and exact as not to be distinguished from print; that the said machine or method may be of great vse in settlements and publick recors, the impression being deeper and more lasting than any other writing, and not to be erased or counterfeited without manifest discovery...
Pagina 74 - You don't need to print no letters for me. I kin read writin '." While they were still working on the last model, Sholes informed Densmore, "Col.
Pagina 2 - I don't know about the world, but I do feel that I have done something for the women who have always had to work so hard. It will enable them more easily to earn a living".
Pagina 58 - It isn't necessary to tell these people that we are crazy over the invention, but I'm afraid I am pretty nearly so...
Pagina 73 - DOUBT HAS PRINTED SOME LETTERS WHICH DO NOT BELONG WHERE SHE PUT THEM. THE HAVING BEEN A COMPOSITOR IS LIKELY TO BE A GREAT HELP TO ME, SINCE 0 NE CHIEFLY NEEDS SWIFTNESS IN BANGING THE KEYS.
Pagina 73 - MADE, & YET I PERCEIVETHAT I SHALL SOON & EASILY ACQUIRE A FINE FACILITY IN ITS USE. i SAW THE THING IN BOSTON THE OTHER DAY & WAS GREATLY TAKEN WIHTH IT.
Pagina 50 - We shall be in a position," he says, "to furnish good machines provided any person is in a position to want them after they are furnished. You know that my apprehension is that the thing may take for a while, and for a while there may .be an active demand for them, but that, like any other novelty, it will have its brief day and be thrown aside. Of course I earnestly hope that such will not prove to be the case, and Densmore laughs at the idea when I suggest it, but I should like to be sure that...
Pagina 17 - Mary, by the grace of God, &c. To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting. Whereas...
Pagina 142 - Whatever I may have felt in the early days of the value of the typewriter, it is obviously a blessing to mankind, and especially to womankind. I am glad I had something to do with it. I builded wiser than I knew, and the world has the benefit of it.