Shoals's wife works as a secretary in a company. At first, because my wife was busy with work, she often took home unfinished work and rushed to write materials overnight, which was very hard. Shoals loves his wife very much, so she has to help copy. Sometimes she writes late into the night, and both of them often have sore hands and arms. Thus, Shoals began to have the idea of inventing a writing machine. After six years of hard research, he built a typewriter like a sewing machine.
The machine lay quietly on the table. Pocket gears, levers, screws, forks, rollers ... Rows of round buttons are evenly distributed on the front of the machine. Anyone with a little mechanical knowledge can look inside each key-the key is connected with a metal rod through a transmission device, and an attractive letter is engraved at the end of each rod, which can be "hit" forward through the control of the key. All the ideas were so ingenious that the modern typewriter was born. Shoals nervously separated his fingers and quickly pressed the button. "Click, click" still sounds so harsh.
Shoals frowned, clicked and stopped, but printed the correct handwriting on the paper. "Can my typewriter only type word by word?" Shoals said to himself, "This is ridiculous." The original problem is the keyboard. Traditionally, Shoals arranged 26 English letters in sequence on the keyboard, A, B, C, D, E, F ... In order to make the typed words adjacent, these keys should not be too far apart. When typing, as long as your fingers move a little faster, the metal bars will interfere with each other. He found a dictionary, roughly counted the most commonly used letters in English, and then rearranged the positions of the keys. He arranged the distance between all the commonly used letters as well as possible to prolong the process of finger movement. The abnormal way of thinking has actually succeeded. Fingers, keys, metal bars, orderly continuous movement. "Dadada ..." Shoals excitedly typed a line of letters, beautiful as printed words: "The first blessing is for all men, especially all women!"
Although some people have long designed a more scientific bond arrangement, it has never been a climate. The keyboard invented by Shoals has been used since 1860. We call it "QWERTY6" keyboard because the first line of the keyboard has six letters arranged from left to right. We are RTY.
At the same time, yost, Shoals's former collaborator, also studied typewriters with the support of a company. He used a joystick to make the same keys into uppercase and lowercase letters respectively, reducing the original 78 keys on the keyboard to 52. Yost has made further improvements so that the operator can see the typed words at any time.
On June 23rd, 1868, the US Patent Office officially accepted the invention patent of Shoals typewriter. Due to financial difficulties, he sold the patent to Remington Ordnance Company. Soon, the famous "Remington" typewriter was grandly launched in the market.