This Day in History - William Austin Burt

William Austin Burt made the first Typewriter patented in the U.S. in 1829.  he typewriter is an electromechanical device that transfers ink from a ribbon to paper to makes a carbon impression or print.  William Austin Burt made a patented machine called the "Typographer" in 1829 and recognized as the first typewriter.  In 1719, there was a similar invention patented in Britain by Henry Mill that made lasting print impressions.  




William Austin Burt patented a machine called the "Typographer" which, in common with many other early machines, is listed as the "first typewriter"Italian Pellegrino Turri invented the original typewriter in 1808 that was able to make a first carbon impression.  The Science Museum of London describes it as the "first writing mechanism documented. The machine used a dial instead of keys as seen on a keyboard today and was called an index typewriter.  Burt's promoter John D. Sheldon couln't find a buyer for the patent so the typewriter didn't get commercially produced until IBM and Remington Rand models were released n 1961.



The movable printing press was the first of its kind originally an invention that dates back to ancient China from 1041 to 1048, developed by the Han Chinese printer Bi Sheng. In 1450, the revamped mechanical Printing technology is credited to German printer inventor Johannes Gutenberg. Thanks to the contributing works of William Austin Burt, books are possible!