Little Russia - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes

Little Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Little Russia (Rus' Minor), sometimes Little or Lesser Rus’ (Russian: Малая Русь or Малороссия; Ukrainian: Мала Русь), is a historical political and geographical term in the Russian language referring to most of the territory of modern-day Ukraine before the 20th century."

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E. Remington and Sons - - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes

Image via WikipediaA maid showed me in without ceremony, and as I entered the sitting-room a lady, who was sitting before a Remington typewriter, sprang up with a pleasant smile of welcome. 


E. Remington and Sons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Remington's typewriter


Sholes & Glidden Typewriter, 1876
In 1867 Christopher Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel Lewis invented another typewriter. The Sholes and Glidden typewriter was the first device that allowed an operator to type substantially faster than a person could write by hand. The patent (U.S. 79,265) was sold for $12,000 to Densmore and Yost, who made an agreement with E. Remington and Sons (then famous as a manufacturer of sewing machines), to commercialize what was known as the Sholes and Glidden Type-Writer. Remington started production of their first typewriter on March 1, 1873 in Ilion, New York. The Type-Writer introduced the QWERTY, designed by Sholes, and the success of the follow-up Remington No. 2 of 1878 – the first typewriter to include both upper and lower case letters via a shift key – led to the popularity of the QWERTY layout.[1][2]"
  

Hansen Writing Ball - - Things Learned while reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sherlock Holmes

The keyboard of the writing ball

Hansen Writing Ball - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: 

experimented with different placements of the letters to achieve the fastest writing speed. Malling-Hansen placed the letters on short pistons that went directly through the ball and down to the paper. This, together with the placement of the letters so that the fastest writing fingers struck the most frequently used letters, made the Hansen Writing Ball the first typewriter to produce text substantially faster than a person could write by hand.

Writing ball - model from 1870

Writing ball - model from 1878