Typographer (typewriter)
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The typographer was an early typewriter invented by William Austin Burt.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Intended to aid in office work, the machine worked by using a lever to press characters onto paper one at a time.<ref name="Cyclopaedia">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name=Sheboygan/> It was the first typewriting machine to be patented in the United States, although Pellegrino Turri had made one in Italy in 1808.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Perhaps because of its slow speed, or because there was not yet a wide market for typewriters, it was not a commercial success.<ref name="Cyclopaedia"/><ref name=Sheboygan>Template:Cite news</ref>
The working model that Burt constructed for his 1829 patent was destroyed in the 1836 Patent Office fire.<ref name="Cyclopaedia"/><ref name=FirstLetter>Template:Cite news</ref>