Project Gutenberg<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> in 1829.</p><p>In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter. The working model that Burt constructed for his 1829 patent was destroyed in the 1836 Patent Office fire.</p><p><a href="https://www.datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?pn=X5581&amp;id=33563" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">datamp.org/patents/displayPate</span><span class="invisible">nt.php?pn=X5581&amp;id=33563</span></a></p><p>This patent discloses the actual construction of a type writing machine for the first time in any country. The type are arranged on the under side of a segment carried by a lever pivoted to swing vertically and horizontally.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/typographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>typographer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/typewriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>typewriter</span></a></p>