The typing machine.

A typewriter is a machine, just like a computer. It is composed of a keyboard,

a ribbon, and a platen (that tubular piece for absorbing impact of the
keys). There is no single inventor of the typewriter. the typewriter may
actually have been invented as many as 52 times. The first commercially
sold typewriter was called the Hansen Writing Ball, which was as the name
implies round. The keys, which had no lower case setting, were placed on
pistons that imprinted ink onto paper. Friedrich Nietzsche owned a writing
ball, but grew impatient with it when he couldnt figure out how to change the
ribbon. One of the very earliest typing machines, however, originated as part
of a love story. In their formative years, most of these inventions were
designed to assist the visually impaired. After falling in love with the blind
Countess Carolina Fantoni da Fivizzano, Italian inventor Pellegrino Turri
created a machine to help her write, or so the story goes. The machine itself
has been lost, but a few notes written by the Countess do survive. Carey
Wallaces novel, The Blind Contessas New Machine, is based on their
romance. Before computers, people would type letters and other documents on
typewriters. The first patent for a typewriter was granted on January 7, 1714,
but it was years before the first typewriter was invented. In 1808, Pellegrino
Turri built the first typewrite for his friend Countess Carolina Fantoni da
Fivizzano. He also invented carbon paper which was used for the machines
ink. Not much is known about the first typewriter, but people can still read
letters that the Countess typed on that typing machine.
In 1808 the Italian Pellegrino Turri invented a typing machine, and to make it
work he needed a special role, so he developed a type of carbon paper.
Although both carbon paper inventors were trying to help blind people to type
using carbonated paper and a machine, but either way, there was a big
difference between their systems. The carbon paper that Pellegrino Turri
created , however, was made for other reasons.
The young Italian was in love with the Countess Carolina Fantoni, who had
gone blind. For the Countess to kept her correspondence with her friends and
with him, of course, Turri decided to invent a machine to help her.

Through letters Countess wrote with this special system, it's known that Turri's
machine and carbonated paper are very similar to the Remington's typewriter,
Christopher Latham Shole's invention.
But advances in technology, photocopiers, printers and computers have moved
to carbon paper, essential office supplies at other times.
"Carolina Fantoni, a young contessa in nineteenth-century Italy, is going blind.
Neither her parents nor her fianc believe her. Only her friend Turri, an
eccentric local inventor, understands. As darkness erases Carolina's world, she
discovers one place where she can still see-in her dreams-yet she remains
isolated from the outside world. Desperate to communicate with Carolina,
Turri creates a peculiar contraption for her: the world's first typewriter. His gift
ignites a passionate love affair that will mark both their lives forever."