jan 1, 1867 - Typewriter

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Information has been recorded by stylus, pen, brush and pencil, written to whatever media were most available and appropriate. Media included stone, shell, clay, metal, papyrus, cloth, paper. Until recently, good penmanship was considered an important indicator of literacy. The typewriter initiated changes in that perception.
The typewriter also introduced the concept of the keyboard as a means of text input to information processing systems, a notion adopted in future generations of inventions such as the teletypewriter, the typesetting machine, the keypunch and, of course, the computer and its word processing cousin.

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