Thetypographer was an earlytypewriter invented byWilliam Austin Burt.^[1] Intended to aid in office work, the machine worked by using a lever to press characters onto paper one at a time.^[2][3] It was the first typewriting machine to be patented in the United States, althoughPellegrino Turri had made one in Italy in 1808.^[4] Perhaps because of its slow speed, or because there was not yet a wide market for typewriters, it was not a commercial success.^[2][3]

The working model that Burt constructed for his 1829 patent was destroyed in the1836 Patent Office fire.^[2][5]

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• Linnoff, Victor M. (2000).The Typewriter, an illustrated history. Dover Publications.ISBN 0-486-41237-7.

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