<P> The typographer, America's first typewriter, was invented and made by William Austin Burt . It was a mechanical device that was worked by hand to make the letter print on paper . The working model provided by Burt for his 1829 patent was destroyed in the 1836 Patent Office fire . The main purpose of the device was to speed up secretarial work, although that ultimately was not accomplished at first . </P> <P> The typographer was patented on July 23, 1829, as U.S. patent No. 5581X . United States Patent Office documents describe Burt's American machine as "the actual construction of a type writing machine for the first time in any country". It was the first practical typewriting machine ever made in America, although Pellegrino Turri had made one in Italy in 1808 . The patent gave Burt the full exclusive rights to his new typewriter machine for 14 years, including vending or selling to others any or all of these rights as he saw fit, signed by President Andrew Jackson . </P> <P> All "type writing" machines, those that used letters of typeface, were generally given the name "typographer" from Burt's 1829 patent until 1874 by subsequent inventors who improved on Burt's machine . The concept ultimately came to be called "The Type - Writer" in 1874 . The word stayed hyphenated until the 1880s . William Ozmun Wyckoff, president of the New York State Shorthand Reporters' Association in 1886, and founder of the Remington Typewriter Company, publicized the unhyphenated name "typewriter". It became very well known, and the public finally accepted this as one word by 1919 . Eventually, Burt's typographer was called a typewriter . </P>

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