On Sun, 10 Sep 2017, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
Fred, you forgot that Tesla invented alternating current...
I wasn't around for that stuff.
From what I've heard, he didn't get into public electrocutions to
demonstrate.
It seems that anything with a typewriter style keyboard and ANY sort of
storage would get used for correspondence and manuscripts. Then, business
letters started to be obsessed with print quality.
BTW, Sam Clemens (Mark Twain) is credited with being first to submit a
typewritten manuscript. That may be true. 'Course really obscure
manuscript submissions would have been ignored or forgotten, so unless we
have an exhaustive count of typewriters sold, and exhaustive records of
publishers, the claim should remain as "probably".
ALL history "FIRST"s are subject to the obscure prior entries being
forgotten. After all, history teachers still call Columbus "FIRST"!
I tried to interest my publisher in going straight from microcomputer into
typesetting machine, but I couldn't do that disk format, and the Rochester
Dynatyper was too funny to watch. My publisher's wife did not see it as
being a sufficient benefit over her re-typing into the typesetter
keyboard.
