We Take Keyboards With Us Everywhere We Go,

but in the days of typewriters, (if you remember those),

all photographs/illustrations from oz.Typewriter, it was not quite as easy, they were big and heavy, until the Junior and the Bennett came along, the Bennett started life as the Junior in 1907,

with the addition of a gleaming paper plate and two ribbon spools, became the Bennett in 1910,

an amazing piece of kit for its day, 

both were invented by Charles Almon Bennett, who was born in Bennington, Vermont, in April 1850. The son of a machinist, Bennett worked as a postmaster, a stationery merchant and, late in life, as a storekeeper for the US Army’s Picatinny Arsenal in Morris County, New Jersey,

and the price of this cutting edge piece of kit? $18.00,

and here they are side by side, the original patent, applied for on October 25, 1899, and granted on March 26, 1901, by the way if you see one of these, the Junior and the Bennett are remarkable design and engineering achievements, and these are highly treasured by typewriter collectors around the world, (but check first for latest prices before bidding!), the full article is here.