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" An artificial machine or method for the impressing or transcribing of letters singly or progressively one after another, as in writing, whereby all writings whatsoever may be engrossed in paper or parchment so neat and exact as not to be distinguished... "
The Universal Cyclopaedia - Page 7
1900
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Patents for inventions. Abridgments of specifications, Volume 95

Patent office - 1869 - 458 pages
...progressively one after another " as in writing, whereby all writings whatsoever may be en" grossed in paper or parchment so neat and exact as not to be " distinguished from print; that the said machine or method " may be of great vse in settlements and publick recors, the im" pression...
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The Strand Magazine, Volume 13

Herbert Greenhough Smith, Sir George Newnes - England - 1897 - 862 pages
...method, for the impressing or transcribing of letters, singly or progressively, one after another, as in writing, whereby all writings whatsoever may be...and exact as not to be distinguished from print." Thus was the typewriter born. No drawings were submitted with the specifications, so that it is now...
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Bulletins of the Twelfth Census of the United States: Issued from October 6 ...

United States. Census Office - United States - 1902 - 680 pages
...have dated its inception more than a century earlier than it does, for this invention was described as "an artificial machine or motive for impressing or...all writings whatsoever may be engrossed on paper or United States. Connecticut. Illinois. Massachusetts. New New York. Pennsylvania. All other stak«.1...
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Every where ..., Volumes 27-28

Will Carleton - 1910 - 828 pages
...progressively, one after another, as in writing, whereby all writings whatsover may be engrossed on the paper or parchment so neat and exact as not to be distinguished from print." This machine, although of very little practical use, furnished the idea from which sprang the efficient machines...
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A Handy Book of Curious Information: Comprising Strange Happenings in the ...

William S. Walsh - Curiosities and wonders - 1913 - 1028 pages
...or Progressively one after another as in Writing, whereby all Writing whatever may be engrossed in Paper or Parchment so Neat and Exact as not to be distinguished from Print." The American patent was isued to William A. Burt, but the records were destroyed by a fire at Washington...
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Documents and Their Scientific Examination: With Especial Reference to the ...

Charles Ainsworth Mitchell - Reference - 1922 - 236 pages
...or Progressively one after the other as in Writing, whereby all writing whatever may be Engrossed in Paper or Parchment so Neat and Exact as not to be distinguished from Print." Unfortunately, as is usually the case in early patent specifications, no details of the construction...
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The Story of the Typewriter, 1873-1923: Published in Commemoration of the ...

Herkimer County Historical Society - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1923 - 158 pages
...progressively one after another, as in writing, whereby all writings whatsoever may be engrossed in paper or parchment so neat and exact as not to be distinguished from print; that the said machine or method may be of great vse in settlements and publick recors, the impression...
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The World's Work, Volume 46

American literature - 1923 - 692 pages
...progressively, one after another, as in writing, whereby all writing whatsoever may be engrossed in paper or parchment so neat and exact as not to be distinguished from print." But although Mill claimed that he had "lately invented and brought to perfection" THE LATE JOHN SIDDALL...
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Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society, Volume 25

Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.) - Buffalo (N.Y.) - 1921 - 502 pages
...Transcribing Letters, Singly or Progressively one after another as in Writing, whereby all Writing whatever may be Engrossed on Paper or Parchment, so Neat and Exact as not to be distinguished from Print." It sounds well ; and the ancient printing of the record, with many capitals and much emphasis of italics,...
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Henry's Attic: Some Fascinating Gifts to Henry Ford and His Museum

Ford Richardson Bryan - History - 1995 - 442 pages
...or progressively, one after another as in writing, whereby all writings whatsoever may be embossed on paper or parchment so neat and exact as not to be distinguished from print." Although the inventor evidently had great expectations that such a device would discourage forgers...
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