Though Henry Mill filed his specification for a typewriter so long ago as 1714, the first practicable machine oi the kind would seem to have been that of Pierre Faucalt, a blind man, who was granted a French patent in 1841. The first patent for working a machine on the type-bar principle was that of A. H. Beach in 1856, but it was due to the labours of C. Latham Sholes, an American, assisted by S. W. Souk and Carlos Glidden, that the typewriter really bcw.ni9 "n. boon and a blessing to men"— and womes. '
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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 143, 17 June 1916, Page 11
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95Page 11 Advertisements Column 5 Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 143, 17 June 1916, Page 11
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