Innovative typewriter idea turned out to be all wrong

On January 1, 1901, the German inventor Eduard Thürey applied for a patent for his typewriter design, the layout of which was completely different to all previous forms of writing machines.

It was not, however, until 1909 that the first of his unusual - not to say rather bizarre - typewr…

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