Buyenlarge 0-587-33939-x-G1624 Pratt s Typewriter Fine Art Giclee Print 16" x 24"

As early as 1714 Henry mill invented a machine for impressing letters on paper but the first machines to really demonstrate the possibility of producing writing by mechanical means faster than by the pen was patented by John Pratt in 1866. In 1878 the Remongton typewrite was brought out, and since then the use of typewriting machines in business houses has become almost universal. However, with the advent of the computer, typewriters has become a thing of the past.