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Show or progressively one after another, bo neat and exact as not to be distinguished dis-tinguished from print." There Is nothing further to reveal how successful suc-cessful Mill's machine was but It antedates all other typewriters. ! TYPEWRITER 221 YEARS OLD The recent unveiling in Vienna, Austria, of a bronze bust of Peter Mitterhoffer, as the Inventor of the modern typewriter has brought to light records of at least two "writing machines'' previous to 1S64, the date of Mitterhoffer's invention. In 1S50 G. A. Hughes, of Manchester, England, Eng-land, perfected a typewriter but patent records at London show that as early as 1714 a London engineer named Henry Mill received a patent for a "writing machine" for "impressing "impress-ing or transcribing of letters singly |