Typographer Patented: Forerunner of the Typewriter
William Austin Burt patented the typographer in 1829, creating a mechanical device that used a star-shaped disk to imprint characters onto paper. This invention established the fundamental mechanism for later typewriters, transforming written communication from hand-written scripts into machine-generated text decades before the commercial success of the Sholes and Glidden model.
July 23, 1829
197 years ago
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