On This Day March 1

Four and a half years after journalist Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer," he sold his patent rights for $12,000 to E. Remington and Sons of New York state. An arms manufacturer seeking to diversify, they were a firm well equipped with the machinery and skill to carry out the development work. On March 1, 1873 E. Remington and Sons began the manufacturing of the first practical typewriter in Ilion, New York.

Sholes typewriter, 1873. Buffalo History Museum.

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