The typewriter was a machine that would ultimately inspire the public and instituted within offices all over the country and world.  This technology caused a large boom in employment for those with typing skills.  When the first marketed typewriters hit the market, Remington thought the machine would not be used for composing but for transcribing dictation, and that the person typing would be a woman. Flowers were printed on the casing of early models to make the machine seem more comfortable for women to use.

 

    In the United States, many women started in the job market as typists.  In 1910, 81% of typists were female. With more women brought out of the home and into offices, the term “typewriter girl” became a cultural term, mainly used in offices in the early 1900’s.  Any typist, either male or female, had to possess a level of physical strength over intelligence or dexterity, since operating the heavy keys of early typewriters could be tedious and strenuous work. During World War II, the necessity of typewriters was shown as women worked by dictating information that they were hearing through the radio and immediately passing it along for newspapers for publication.

 

    Once the portable typewriter was out on the market, typewriters started to appear not just in offices but in homes as well.  More writers came about as typewriters became more accessible and current writers were able to improve their manuscripts.  Incredibly tedious and long tasks that were regularly done by hand could be finished in minutes on the typewriter, since, as the first Remington adverts declared, “to save time is to lengthen life.”