How Did The Typewriter Affect Society

Before everyone was sending emails and using computers to get their jobs done, we had other ways of finishing our daily tasks. No, I am not talking about using a pencil and scrawling down the words until you feel like your hand is about to fall off. Instead I am talking about an invention known as the typewriter. Although we seldom use one of these today, it used to be quite prominent in society. In fact, it eventually led to the computer so one could say that without the typewriter it would have taken longer for the computer to even be a thought. This first typewriters were patented in the 1700s and they were all ineffectual. They typed leisurely and didn’t do much to improve society. Luckily an ex-newspaper editor named Christopher
(Lubar, Steven, and Kathleen Kendrick. 6). Most women who worked back in the age of the typewriter were clerical workers and the typewriter helped them to do tasks more efficiently.( “The Typewriter” 1). Learning how to type would be a technique woman could fall upon later and it improved their lives around the world.(“The Typewriter” 1) Before the invention of the typewriter, women didn’t have the best jobs. In fact most of them were either working in factories or busy being domestic servants, and to make things worse they barely got paid for it.(Lubar Steven, and Kathleen Kendrick 6). Fortunately the typewriter decided to come along and helped them since women who now used the typewriter were actually getting paid more than men, and it led many men and women to a field in the corporate avenue.(“The Typewriter”) However the typewriter didn’t just help women, it also completely revolutionized business as well. With the invention of the typewriter, it helped broaden and speed up the life of American technology, and more companies decided to manufacture the machine which caused an increase in competition. (Lubar. Steven, and Kathleen Kendrick
Maybe they were invented, but for some reason they weren’t available to the public. Perhaps you’d think there wouldn’t be too much of an impact on this, but I’m afraid you’re wrong. Without access to the typewriters women wouldn’t have finally been able to break away from their monotonous routines of cooking, sewing, and cleaning(“The Typewriter” 1). Can you imagine not being able to have the freedom to choose your own job and barely getting paid with the one you have? If the typewriter had never invented, we could be living in a world where the women’s rights movement wasn’t established until years later. Besides not being able to help women, the typewriter would have a huge impact on computers. Now I’m not saying that without the typewriter, the computer would never have been invented. With time, someone certainly would’ve figured out a way to create it but since the typewriter was almost an early design of the computer, it’s quite possible the age of the computer would’ve been delayed years. If you’re like me, you probably can’t imagine living in a world without computers, and without the typewriter we could be in a world pretty similar to