Though the Sholes & Gliddon (Remington No.1) became the Model T of the typewriter age, there was one notable example of prior art which began manufacture on a very humble, "hand made" scale in ...

In 1878, the Remington no 2 was released, by which time a shifting mechanism had been perfected which allowed both upper and lower-case letters to be produced. Typewriters became an office staple ...