In 1872, typewriters were invented, put into production and quickly gained popularity among the American people. Typing things out was a much easier form of written communication because it saved time making letters on paper by hand and it also made the appearance of documents more attractive looking and organized. The keyboard also allowed people who had hard to read handwriting a way of clearly expressing their documents to people without others having to struggle to …showed first 75 words of 1065 total…

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