Inventors . ^ >f «% - • r,MrW -- ;-f% ^^. .:,. C. L. Sholes. provement upon the pen as the sewing-machineis upon the needle. So long ago as 1843 somepatents were taken out for divers forms of writ-ing-machines, all more or less impracticable. Itwas not until C. L. Sholes, then of Wisconsin, PAST AND PRESENT 287 took up the problem, in 1866, that the presentform of a number of type-bars, arranged so thattheir ends strike upon a common centre, was de-vised. Sholes died in 1891, having also helpedby many minor devices the increase in the use ofwriting-machines. From 1865 to 1873 he madethirty
Inventors . ^ >f «% - • r,MrW -- ;-f% ^^. .:,. C. L. Sholes. provement upon the pen as the sewing-machineis upon the needle. So long ago as 1843 somepatents were taken out for divers forms of writ-ing-machines, all more or less impracticable. Itwas not until C. L. Sholes, then of Wisconsin, PAST AND PRESENT 287 took up the problem, in 1866, that the presentform of a number of type-bars, arranged so thattheir ends strike upon a common centre, was de-vised. Sholes died in 1891, having also helpedby many minor devices the increase in the use ofwriting-machines. From 1865 to 1873 he madethirty different working models of writing-ma-chines, devoting himself to the task almost dayand night for eight years. B. B. HOTCHKISS AND HIS GUNS. American inventors have had, as a rule, butsmall success in making Europe see the value oftheir inventions before this country has provedit. Morse could get neither England nor Franceto take an interest in his telegraph schemes, and,at a later day, Bells telephone was receivedin England as a curious devic
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