MARK TWAIN TYPEWRITER

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MARK TWAIN FIRST TO USE A TYPEWRITER

Before computers, Mark Twain first publisher to use new technology.

“I was the first person in the world that ever had a telephone in his house,” Mark Twain once claimed, adding that he was also “the first person in the world to apply the typemachine to literature.” The author born Samuel Clemens was indeed the first to publish a book written on a typewriter, though he may have misremembered which one it was. Twain recalled it being The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but it was more likely 1883’s Life on the Mississippi, according to typewriter historian Darryl Rehr.