While the machinery of the great newspapers was being developed, another instrument of communication, more humble but hardly less important in modern life, was coming into existence. The typewriter is today in every business office and is another of America's gifts to the commercial world. One might attempt to trace the typewriter back to the early seals, or to the name plates of the Middle Ages, or to the records of the British Patent Office, for 1714, which mention a machine for embossing. But it would be difficult to establish the identity of these contrivances with the modern typewriter.英文原著 · 《The Age of Invention》
Hapgood and A. Maurice, "The Great Newspapers of the United States; the New York Newspapers," in "The Bookman", vols. XIV and XV (1902). On the typewriter, see Charles Edward Weller, "The Early History of the Typewriter" (1918). On the camera, Paul Lewis Anderson, "The Story of Photography" (1918) in "The Mentor", vol. vi, no. 19.; and on the motion picture, Colin N. Bennett, "The Handbook of Kinematography"; "The History, Theory and Practice of Motion Photography and Projection", London: "Kinematograph Weekly" (1911).英文原著 · 《The Age of Invention》
By and by Sarah forced back her tears. The cards must be written. But, still in a faint, golden glow from her dandeleonine dream, she fingered the typewriter keys absently for a little while, with her mind and heart in the meadow lane with her young farmer. But soon she came swiftly back to the rock-bound lanes of Manhattan, and the typewriter began to rattle and jump like a strike-breaker's motor car.英文原著 · 《The Four Million》
-- * The name of this river seems to have passed through the machine of some medieval typewriter, for it is like no name in any language, and Montoya knew Guarani well, having written much in that language.英文原著 · 《A Vanished Arcadia》
That's how a book should be to be a great popular success, and one that all the typewriter girls will have on their desks. I am guiltily conscious that "Back Home" is not up to standard either in avoirdupois heft or the power to unfit a man for business.英文原著 · 《Back Home》
3, 1878 219,628 Electric Lights. 3, 1878 295,990 Typewriter . 4, 1878 218,167 Electric Lights. 31, 1878
1879
224,329 Electric Lighting Apparatus. 23, 1879 227,229 Electric Lights. 28, 1879 227,227 Electric Lights. 6, 1879 224.665 Autographic Stencils for Printing. March 10, 1879 227.679 Phonograph .英文原著 · 《Edison, His Life and Inventions》
There's the tiny typewriter thing where the actress who never gets to speak sits!美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》