History of an Interesting Invention

Pellegrino Turri developed a typing machine so that his blind lover, Countess Carolina Fantoni, could send him love letters without the need for her to dictate to a scribe.

Although the machine itself is lost, the Countess' letters still remain. It's known that Turri's machine used the same principle of pressing keys to print characters that the typewriter and computer keyboard still use to this day.