After the war he joined British intelligence and served in Berlin, where he came across the typewriter. There is a 'secret' key - pressing the numeral 3 key with the shift key down, the Nazi SS ...

On 1 July, 1874, the world's first commercially successful typewriter, the "Sholes & Glidden Type Writer", went on sale. Christopher Latham Sholes and Carlos Glidden had started developing their ...

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