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    The document discusses the history and development of typewriters. It details how typewriters were commonly used in offices and for writing until being replaced by personal computers and word processing software in the 1980s. However, typewriters are still used in some places where reliable electricity is not available, such as in many Indian cities and towns.

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    The document discusses the history and development of typewriters. It details how typewriters were commonly used in offices and for writing until being replaced by personal computers and word processing software in the 1980s. However, typewriters are still used in some places where reliable electricity is not available, such as in many Indian cities and towns.

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    The document discusses the history and development of typewriters. It details how typewriters were commonly used in offices and for writing until being replaced by personal computers and word processing software in the 1980s. However, typewriters are still used in some places where reliable electricity is not available, such as in many Indian cities and towns.

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    The document discusses the history and development of typewriters. It details how typewriters were commonly used in offices and for writing until being replaced by personal computers and word processing software in the 1980s. However, typewriters are still used in some places where reliable electricity is not available, such as in many Indian cities and towns.

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    A mechanical or electromechanical keyboarding device is referred to as a typewriter. A


    typewriter typically contains a variety of keys, and by pressing each key deliberately against the
    paper with a type element, a different single character is formed on the paper. A typewriter
    user was also referred to as a typewriter at the end of the nineteenth century. Although the
    first commercial typewriters were developed in 1874, offices did not start using them often
    until the middle of the 1880s. However, aside from personal handwritten correspondence, the
    typewriter swiftly rose to the status of an essential writing tool. It was frequently used by
    freelance writers, in workplaces, for business correspondence in residences, and by students
    composing essays. Typing machines were an everyday feature in the majority of offices until the
    1980s. Then, word processing software on personal computers started to substantially replace
    them. But there are still many places in the world where typewriters are used. Because there
    isn't consistent, reliable electricity, for instance, typewriters are still often utilized in many
    Indian cities and towns, particularly at roadside and law offices.
    Even though many contemporary typewriters have one of several identical designs, their
    creation was incremental and developed over several decades by numerous innovators working
    separately or in competition. Similar to the development of the vehicle, telephone, and
    telegraph, a lot of people's ideas and innovations eventually led to increasingly profitable
    devices. In an effort to create a practical design, typewriters are said to have been invented 52
    times, according to historians.

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