Sculpture Made Out Of Typewriter Parts

In 1865, Rev. Rasmus Malling-Hansen Denmark invented the Hansen Writing Ball, which went into commercial production in 1870 and was the first commercially sold typewriter. It was a success in Europe and was reported as being used in fices in London as late as 1909. Malling-Hansen used a solenoid escapement to return the carriage on some his models which makes him a candidate for the title inventor the first "electric" typewriter. According to the book Hvem er skrivekuglens opfinder? (English: Who is the inventor the Writing Ball?), written by Malling-Hansen's daughter, Johanne Agerskov, in 1865, Malling-Hansen made a porcelain model the keyboard his writing ball and experimented with different placements 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 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.
Malling-Hansen developed his typewriter further through the 1870s and 1880s and made many improvements, but the writing head remained the same. On the first model the writing ball from 1870, the paper was attached to a cylinder inside a wooden box. In 1874, the cylinder was replaced by a carriage, moving beneath the writing head. Then, in 1875, the well-known "tall model" was patented, which was the first the writing balls that worked without electricity. Malling-Hansen attended the world exhibitions in Vienna in 1873 and Paris in 1878 and he received the first-prize for his invention at both exhibitions.
The first typewriter to be commercially successful was invented in 1867 by C. Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, although Sholes soon disowned the machine and refused to use, or even to recommend it. The working prototype was made by the machinist Matthias Schwalbach. The patent (US 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 sewing machines) to commercialize the machine as the Sholes and Glidden Type-Writer. This was the origin the term typewriter. Remington began production its first typewriter on March 1, 1873, in Ilion, New York. It had a QWERTY keyboard layout, which because the machine's success, was slowly adopted by other typewriter manufacturers.