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Good responses here already, but it's interesting to note that the early typewriters had the same issue. The noisy Remington No 1 was released in 1874, with all
by paulorlando 3y ago
Good responses here already, but it's interesting to note that the early typewriters had the same issue. The noisy Remington No 1 was released in 1874, with all caps and no lower case. The shift key allowing both upper and lower case wasn't introduced until the Remington Model 2 in 1878.
- Findecanor 3y agoYes, and there were still connections to telegraphs, which used all upper-case. Sholes was much inspired by Hughes' telegraphs that used a piano-like keyboard with keys in alphabetic order. The first early adopters/beta testers of Sholes' Type-Writer were telegraphists who transcribed Morse code. First after that did Remington get involved.