American Invention of 19th century - Typewriter

I'm going to talk about the typewriter which is one of the greatest American inventions of the 1800s. It was extremely useful in those times, even until the computer appeared.

Cristopher Latham Sholes invented the typewriter with the help of Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule. Although other important inventors had tried to make a typewriter, they weren't commercially successful. But Cristopher Shole's typewriter was certainly the first commercially successful one, invented in 1867.

The typewriter had a great impact on America's history because it increased the production of important literary pieces and written documents, the spreading of the knowledge, etc. It also helped America to becoome more popular and well kown between other countries, so their written documents became more important. But the typewriter also had a great impact all over the world. It facilitated writers and lots of people to make written compositions in an easier and faster way. It was more practical than writing with a pencil.

Bibliography

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter
• http://images.google.com/images?q=sholes%20typewriter
• http://images.google.com/images?hl=es&sa=1&q=+typewriter&btnG=Buscar+im%C3%A1genes
• http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/Nineteenth.htm