typewriter

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The operative patent for the typewriter was awarded in 1868 to Christopher Latham Sholes.

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  1. noun A writing machine that produces characters similar to typeset print by means of a manually operated keyboard that actuates a set of raised types, which strike the paper through an inked ribbon.
  2. noun Printing A typestyle like that of typewritten copy.

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  • I realized that if this typewriter was the tool that I had to work with there's no way I'd be generating as much content as I do. —  JasonKolb.com
  • And as I grow older, my conscience bothers me every time I buy something like a typewriter or a radio. —  ElsaElsa.com
  • "The bottom line is that [the compensation system] was developed in the era of the rotary phone and the typewriter, and in the era we're in now, we're having to think about how to make the money move in different ways," said Brap Jupp, the senior academic-policy adviser for the —  Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  • "That's how the typewriter was made in the first place," Mayer tells Wired. com. —  TreeHugger
  • Any bronze-age typewriter is a more quality product then the latest computer. —  RealClimate
 

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