The typographer was an early typewriter invented by William Austin Burt. ^[1] Intended to aid in office work, the machine worked by using a lever to press characters onto paper one at a time. ^{[2] [3]} It was the first typewriting machine to be patented in the United States, although Pellegrino Turri had made one in Italy in 1808. ^[4] Perhaps because of its slow speed, or because there was not yet a wide market for typewriters, it was not a commercial success. ^{[2] [3]}

The working model that Burt constructed for his 1829 patent was destroyed in the 1836 Patent Office fire. ^{[2] [5]}

References

Further reading

• Adler, Michael H. (1973). The Writing Machine, A History of the Typewriter. George Allen & Unwin Ltd. ISBN   0-04-652004-X.
• Linnoff, Victor M. (2000). The Typewriter, an illustrated history. Dover Publications. ISBN   0-486-41237-7.