PART 198
Practice
typewriter keyboards seem like a good idea, especially to a two-fingered typist
such as myself. On this day (December 7) in 1915, William Perry Cosper, of
Chicago, patented just such a thing.
Cosper, born
in Carson City on August 12, 1866, was an inventor employed by a railroad
supply company. He died in Chicago on January 25, 1952.
Emanuel
Two further US efforts were made to produce practice typewriter keyboards, the first in 1942 by
Atlanta-born Amy Emanuel (1892-), an Asheville, North Carolina, court stenographer,
and the second in 1948 by Edgar T.Lugar (1912-1966), a Berkeley, California,
compositor and printer.
Lugar
Interestingly,
the first such device, in 1896, was designed by an Englishman, John Stevenson
Rhodes, of Birmingham, for Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict, the makers and marketers of
Remington typewriters. Another Englishman, Henry Herbert Yelf, of Southsea, patented a
similar design in the US in 1923. He called it an "instructional dummy practice-keyboard apparatus", which just about says it all.
Rhodes
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