What benefits did the typewriter have?

What benefits did the typewriter have?

The typewriter, by reducing the time and expense involved in creating documents, encouraged the spread of systematic management. It allowed a system of communications that shaped the business world.

What are the advantages of word processing?

Advantages of using a word processor over a manual type writer

• A document can be stored in a computer for future reference.
• Have special editing tools eg spelling and grammar checkers.
• One can easily insert or replace a word or phrase without affecting the neatness of a document.

Why was the typewriter so important to women?

The typewriter allowed for more efficiency in shorthand, and eventually became a symbol of the American woman worker, as secretaries all over the country began using them. Clerical work defined women workers, and the typewriter became the main tool, or machine, that those women used in their “production.”

Why did the typewriter become a symbol of the American worker?

More companies were taking the risk of manufacturing the machine and competition was rising. The typewriter allowed for more efficiency in shorthand, and eventually became a symbol of the American woman worker, as secretaries all over the country began using them.

What did typewriters look like in the 1920s?

By the 1920s, virtually all typewriters were “look-alikes”: frontstroke, QWERTY, typebar machines printing through a ribbon, using one shift key and four banks of keys. (Some diehards lingered on. The huge Burroughs Moon-Hopkins typewriter and accounting machine was a blind writer that was manufactured, amazingly enough, until the late 1940s.)

How did the typewriter revolutionize the secretarial industry?

Secretarial work has seemed to always be dominated by women workers and it is their “industry”. Remington was correct in saying that the typewriter would revolutionize business because it affected secretaries all over the country.