Remington can boast of being the company that created the first typewriter, way back in 1870. One of the first users of the typewriters produced by the company was none other than Mark Twain. The story is disputed as to whether he was actually the first writer to produce a typed manuscript to send to his publisher, but he was certainly one of the first.

 

A total of more than two dozen different versions of the Remington typewriter have been produced over the years. The company began life as E Remington and Sons, taking its name from the man who founded the company in 1816 nearly sixty years before manufacturing the first Remington typewriter. Meanwhile they were responsible for the design and manufacturing of Remington rifle barrels.

 

Remington is notable as a typewriter brand for the simple fact that their first two typewriter models had features that are still in use today on every single computer keyboard in the world. The first typewriter they produced was known as the Sholes and Glidden typewriter. Sholes was credited with inventing the typewriter as we know it today, with the so-called QWERTY keyboard that we all know.