Than a person could write by hand was the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer. 230.) A number of original 1878 model Writing Balls survive, and this model has been reproduced. Mares, The History of the Typewriter, London,ġ909, p. Writing Balls were still found in offices on the EuropeanĬontinent. (See image to left) Production of Writing Balls ended when Malling-Hansen died in 1890. For photographs of a second 1878 model Writing Ball, click here.Ī larger model of the Writing Ball poweredīy electricity was described in the January 15, 1876, issue of Harper's The machine in this photograph was sold by Auction Team Köln. The model in the photograph to the right was introduced in 1878. Malling-Hansen was experimenting with the placement of the letters already in 1865 - and he succeeded in finding a placement of the letters that made the writing speed extremely fast. The International Rasmus Malling-Hansen Society website claims: "The writing ball was not only the first typewriter to be produced and sold in a relatively large quantity, it is also the fastest typewriter ever made, because of the unique construction of the 'ball'. Writing Balls won several awards during the 1870s on the European continent, where they were a commercial success, although the total number machines produced may have been only about 180. Rasmus Malling-Hansen (1835-90) of Denmark introduced the first of a number of models of his Writing Ball around 1869 (see image to left from the MBHT), and he received his first patent in 1870. (Image to left from the 1862Ĭollege catalog is courtesy of Jim Drummond.) Writing machine rather than writing with a pen. Its 1862 catalog, the Eastman Business College advertised that students withĭisabilities would be able to use Charles Thurber's Kaligraph
8,980 for the writing machine to the right, which he called a Mechanical Laterally, but found only a few thousand dollars worth of gold." "Miners dug a shaft 60 feet down, then an exploratory tunnel 30 feet This was the first discovery of gold in Maryland. Stone" and "thee"] walked the two miles to Brookeville toįetch the mail." Brooke Meadow was built in 1823 and later was acquired by SamuelĪnd Sallie Duck Ellicott, who were living there in 1849 when gold was discovered on the The dauntless Quaker [who, in the letter, addressed his lawyer as "Friend Incorporator and director of the Insurance Company. Spring Museum, "Totally blind since birth, Samuel Ellicott ofīrooke Meadow led a productive life: successful farmer and businessman, This time, e.g., the Fairbanks machine (1848) and the Beach machine (patented byĪlfred Ely Beach, one of the proprietors of Scientific American, in
A number of typewriters for the blind were invented around Letter is not yet known, the machine was designed for communication between blind people, or between a blindĪnd a sighted person. We have seen a similar letter by Elliott dated 1846. Letter was retained by Elliott while another copy was sent to his lawyer, J. Maryland, north of Washington, DC, on April 14, 1852. Written by Samuel Ellicott at his home, Brooke Meadow, located near Brookeville, The letter, which deals with a legal matter, was Roman letter is formed by a number of raised dots. (If your browser automatically reduces the image so that it all fits on yourĬomputer screen, click on the image on the screen. Letter Typed on a Writing Machine for the Blind ~ Click on the box to the left to view anĮnlarged scanned image of the first page of a letter written on a machine in 1852. Pictured to the right and immediately below.Ģ0th Century Painting of Hypothetical Office with Thurber's One of these early machines,Ĭharles Thurber's 1843-45 Patent Printer, is Writing machines with a wide range of designs. 1747, and a machine that enabled a blind person to write letters to a sighted Writing machine was patented in England in 1714, a music typewriter was inventedĬ.
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