what Gutenberg's printing press did for publishing, the manual typewriter did for daily communication.
Before 1850, most business correspondence was written by hand and copied using the 'letter press'.
With the ink still wet, the letter would be placed into a tissue paper ' book ' .
A hand press would then be used to squeeze the 'book' and copy the still-wet ink onto the tissue paper.
By the 1870 s, manual typewriters made it cheaper, easier and faster to produce and copy business correspondence.
Of course, in the 1980 s, slightly more than a century
later, typewriters were replaced by personal computers and word processing software for identical reasons.
Finally, businesses have always looked for information technologies that would speed access to timely information.
For instance, the Medici family, who opened banks throughout Europe in the early 1400s, used post messengers to keep in contact with their more than 40 'branch' managers. the post messengers, who predated modern postal services by 400 years, could travel 90 miles per day, twice what average riders could cover at the time, because the Medici were willing to pay for the expense of providing them with fresh horses.
This need for timely information also led companies to quickly adopt the telegraph in the 1860s, the telephone in the last decade.
what Gutenberg's printing press did for publishing, the manual typewriter did for daily communication.
Before 1850, most business correspondence was written by hand and copied using the 'letter press'.
With the ink still wet, the letter would be placed into a tissue paper ' book ' .
A hand press would then be used to squeeze the 'book' and copy the still-wet ink onto the tissue paper.
By the 1870 s, manual typewriters made it cheaper, easier and faster to produce and copy business correspondence.
Of course, in the 1980 s, slightly more than a century
later, typewriters were replaced by personal computers and word processing software for identical reasons.
Finally, businesses have always looked for information technologies that would speed access to timely information.
For instance, the Medici family, who opened banks throughout Europe in the early 1400s, used post messengers to keep in contact with their more than 40 'branch' managers. the post messengers, who predated modern postal services by 400 years, could travel 90 miles per day, twice what average riders could cover at the time, because the Medici were willing to pay for the expense of providing them with fresh horses.
This need for timely information also led companies to quickly adopt the telegraph in the 1860s, the telephone in the last decade.
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