1st March 1873
Production of the first typewriter begins.

Developing a device invented to number the pages of books and extending it to print the whole alphabet, Christopher Sholes invented the QWERTY keyboard and patented it in 1868. Although the QWERTY keyboard layout is designed to keep commonly used letters far apart from one another to avoid the mechanism from jamming when two keys were struck at once; even though the advent of electrical typewriters and word processors has rendered the mechanics obsolete, the keyboard layout is still in use today.

He sold the design to E. Remington & Sons, who made the first production typewriter. Originally developed to allow the blind to write, the first typewriters went into production on 1st March, 1873. Until 1895, it was impossible to see what was being typed, as the text was printed on a sheet of paper that was face down, inside the machine, and the old style of typewriter continued production until 1915.