What was the first book written on a typewriter?

Question

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Okay, Okay! What was the first novel typed on a typewriter? You guys are so picky with the vocabulary.

Answer 1

Mark Twain wrote, late in life, "I will now claim ... that I was the first person in the world to apply the type-machine to literature," claiming a young woman made him a typed copy of one of his manuscripts. He recalled that he had written Tom Sawyer (1974) on such a machine," but that was just his recollection; some experts claim that the book he was was thinking of was his Life on the Mississippi (1882). A 1949 IBM publication credits Twain with being the first to produce a book on the typewriter, but does not give the date, the book, or the source of its informatiton. We do know that he occasionally used it for letters as early as 1874.

Twain's story is an interesting one -- but as far as I can tell, no one ever went back to his publishers to see if they'd ever gotten a typewritten manuscript from him. It's a story -- but not backed up by evidence. And even if Twain HAD used a typewriter this way, how would he know whether anyone else had done so before him?

If you want evidence, not recollection, the first author known to have submitted typewritten manuscripts is not Twain, but Fanny Kemble, actress and writer.

Answer 2

A book wasn't written on a typewriter, a lot of manuscripts were. Books were typeset in printing presses, until recently (computers are changing things).

Do you know why the American typewriters have those particular letters on top? It's because a salesman could type the word "typewriter" faster if the letters were all on the top line (and that's why the French have a different key set, they don't call it a typewriter, so the sales gimmick doesn't work for them. And the germans have a slightly different one as well...)

The first word typed on a qwerty typewriter was the word typewriter. I don't know about the azerty ones though.

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What was the first book written on a typewriter?
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Answer 4

no book was ever "written" on a typewriter, and I don't know which one was first typed either

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Old printing presses were used which were set up manually by hand and had no spell checkers around so typos were made by human intervention.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain

Answer 8

The bible

(well that was the first book printed on a printing press anyway)

Answer 9

I think they still used printing presses.