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Typewriter. . . originally called the "literary piano", it was invented by Christopher Sholes in Milwaukee in the 1870s.

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The Typewriter is a machine with an educational future. A dilettante may object to its introduction into the schools, but its practical success wherever it has been answers all objections.... [W]riters can do more work on the type-writer with less visual fatigue than with pen and ink. The boys and girls who learn its use in school exercises become acquainted with a labor-saving friend which will stand by them through life.

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Typewriter is the longest word that can be typed on a single line of a QWERTY keyboard.

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Typing is all about speed --- The fastest typist ever recorded, Stella Pajunas-Garnand, typed at a rate of 216 words per minute.

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typewriter' is the longest word that can be typed using only the top row of a keyboard

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The Typewriter is a machine which, when played with expression, is no more annoying than when someone in the room is playing the piano

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