Show typewriter YEARS OLD the recent unveiling in vienna austria of a bronze bust of peter as the inventor of the modern typewriter has brought to light records of at least two writing machines previous to tho the date of blitt erh offers invention in 1850 0 A hughes of manchester england perfected a typewriter but patent records at london show that Ss as early as 1714 a london engineer named henry mill received a patent for a writing machine for impressing or transcribing of letters lettera singly or progressively one after another so eo neat and exact as not to be distinguished from print there Is nothing further to reveal how successful scilla machine was but it antedates all other typewriters |