EMANCIPATION
“I FEEL THAT I HAVE DONE SOMETHING FOR THE WOMEN WHO HAVE ALWAYS HAD TO WORK SO HARD. THIS WILL ENABLE THEM MORE EASILY TO EARN A LIVING.”
Statement of Christopher Latham Sholes, inventor of the typewriter.
THE STORY
OF THE
TYPEWRITER
1873–1923
PUBLISHED IN COMMEMORATION OF THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE INVENTION OF THE WRITING MACHINE
BY THE
Herkimer County Historical Society
HERKIMER, NEW YORK
1923