Table of Contents
Guest Features 9
The Typewriter - A Foreword Martin Howard 11
July 1887 15
Chapter 1 Slow and Unsteady 19
Life Before the Typewriter 20
The Need for Speed 23
Earliest Attempts 24
Chapter 2 The Mind Behind the Keys 31
Early Life of Christopher Latham Sholes 31
Invention and Perfection 34
What No One Else Could Do 43
Chapter 3 Early Conception 47
Model 2 47
QWERTY and the Final Tweaks 50
Manufacturing Woes 54
Chapter 4 Innovation Explosion 65
The Remington Era 66
The Caligraph Shift 69
The Crandall New Model 79
Chapter 5 Seeing is Believing 87
Visible Type 88
The Hammond 90
The Blickensderfer 96
The Almighty Underwood 102
Chapter 6 Out of the Office and into the Home 109
The Index Image 109
The Switch 112
Toy Typewriters 114
Chapter 7 The Practical Side 119
The New Demand 120
The New Sport 124
Crime Solving 128
Chapter 8 The Writer's Companion 131
The Writer Image 131
The Advantages 134
Early Famous Fans 137
Chapter 9 Faster, Smaller, Better 143
IBM and the Electric Typewriter 143
The Portable Craze 149
The Traveling Reporter 158
Chapter 10 A Modern Revival 165
Fallen by the Wayside 165
The Nostalgic Writer 172
Unplug 173
July 2017 177
Author's Note 181
Appendix: Parts of the Typewriter 183
Timeline 187
Glossary 191
Index 199
About the Author 203
Martin Howard-A Collector's Message 206
