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Show Typewriters Nearly von Wara Atm It la generally supposed that the tipewrltlng machine Is quite n modern Invention, but there la a record In the archil ea In the Kngllsh patent office for 17M at an application for n patent for such a machine. Kxactly 100 years later the firm of llaln & Wright applied ap-plied (or a similar grant, and the construction con-struction of their machine afforded a basis that enabled a Mr. Thurber, at Worceater, to Improve tH yatem. In the year 1S51 a Frenchman named Fottcall obtained an Kng'.lah patent for a very Ingeniously conceived writing writ-ing machine, which waa ah iwn In tbe great exhibition of the rant year and created no small aeniatlon j |