page_title: Typographer (typewriter)
hierarchical_section_title: Typographer (typewriter)
caption_attribution_description: English: Patent USX558111 crop showing Fig 4
context_page_description: The typographer was an early typewriter. It was a mechanical innovation created by William Austin Burt. The mechanism was operated by hand to provide a printed ink impression on paper. The working model provided by Burt for his 1829 patent was destroyed in the 1836 Patent Office fire. The main purpose of the device was to speed up secretarial work, although that was not accomplished.
context_section_description: The typographer was an early typewriter. It was a mechanical innovation created by William Austin Burt. The mechanism was operated by hand to provide a printed ink impression on paper. The working model provided by Burt for his 1829 patent was destroyed in the 1836 Patent Office fire. The main purpose of the device was to speed up secretarial work, although that was not accomplished.
caption: Patent USX558111 showing character selection lever in position on a letter ready to be depressed to make a typed imprint.[1]
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