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Well might Playwright O'Neill have felt surprised at receiving this generous share of the dead Swedish dynamite inventor's money, along with the world's most coveted literary honor. As a rule the Swedish Academy scrupulously attempts to see that no one nation or branch of literature gets more than its share of Nobel Prizes. The literary prize was not awarded last year. Since 1930, therefore, it has been given just five times, twice to U. S. citizens (Sinclair Lewis, 1930; Eugene O'Neill, 1936), thrice to dramatists (John Galsworthy, 1932; Luigi Pirandello, 1934; Eugene...
...Soulé developed a practical machine in the U. S. in 1867, and typewriters began to be marketed by Remington in 1874. First U. S. patent on a writing-machine, however, was issued in 1829 to a remarkable man named William Austin Burt. On this device, in March 1830, Inventor Burt whacked out the first letter typewritten in the U.S. Last week the Smithsonian Institution proudly announced that it had acquired and would shortly display this message...
...Inventor Burt's machine, made entirely of wood, was destroyed in the Patent Office fire of 1836. It was a ponderous gadget with the type carried on a circular frame operated by a lever. That Burt could write faster with his machine than by hand is highly improbable. Yet it had a feature that was lacking in some commercial machines for many years: separate sets of capital and lower-case letters, with a shift mechanism for changing from one to the other...
William Austin Burt's first typewritten letter, whose orthographic vagaries the Smithsonian charitably ascribes to the weaknesses of the machine as well as to the inventor's weakness in spelling, was written from New York City to his wife in Michigan...
...shuttling back and forth beneath them. The Lektro-Shaver differs by being roundheaded, with a single horizontal slot in which whiskers are sheared off by a blade in rocking motion. Dictograph held that these differences were essential and that the Schick patent had been anticipated, anyway, by an English inventor named Appleyard in 1913. The court, however, found the evidence of infringement "inescapable...