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The Origin of the Keyboard: The Typewriter

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The Italian engineer Pellegrino Turri

wanted someone he loved, who was gradually losing her eyesight, to keep communicating with him and with others around her.

For that precious person, and for himself as well, Turri invented a machine called the 'typewriter.'

As time passed, the typewriter evolved into the PC keyboard, and today it supports the lives of not only the visually impaired but all of us.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellegrino_Turri

 

Pellegrino Turri - Wikipedia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Italian inventor Pellegrino Turri (1765–1828), an Italian inventor, invented a mechanical typing machine, one of the first typewriters, at the start of the 19th century (conflicting accounts suggest 1801, 1806 or 180

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Pellegrino Turri's typewriter | Pinterest
A letter typed by Carolina | Wikipedia

This English version was translated by Codex.

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