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The invention of the Smith Corona typewriter began an era of innovation in this country. Many different versions of typewriters were introduced into the market. Some, like the Smith Corona typewriter, survived while others failed to catch on. The Smith Corona typewriter was an electric typewriter designed to be a portable tool for business people and writers. The Smith Corona typewriter was quite popular and soon became a machine widely used in private homes and businesses.The Smith Corona typewriter was created in the late 19th centurt by the LC Smith & Bros Typewriter Company. The company that created the Smith Corona typewriters reorganized several times, incorporating several innovations into the Smith Corona typewriter. The Smith Corona typewriter was one of about five brands of typewriters to dominate the typewriter market in the 1900’s. The Smith Corona typewriter became the dominant force by perfecting the “visible” portable typewriter. The Smith Corona typewriter was capable of allowing the user to see what they were typing as they were typing it. The Smith Corona typewriter (known as Smith & Corona at this point) was marketed directly to the residential market after the Great Depression. The Smith Corona typewriter became the most popular by the mid-1950’s and further innovations were made to the design. The keyboard of the Smith Corona typewriter was redesigned to be more ergonomic. With more control features on the Smith Corona typewriter keyboard and a repeat action on all the keys, the Smith Corona typewriter was setting the standard in typewriter technology. In the 1960’s, the Smith Corona typewriter was the first typewriter developed with a power carriage return. Smith Corona typewriters began to set industry standards.

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The hot air balloon that we see is truly a marvel of science. Travelling the skies using just air is a great achievement. Any balloon that is used for flight has three main parts. French brothers Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier (1783) are performed the first manned flight. They were not much more successful than the animals, managing to stay in air for a total of 20 minutes. The first serious, long distance flight came just two years later when in 1785 a French balloonist, Jean Pierre Blanchard, and his American co pilot, John Jefferies, became the first to fly across the English Channel. The above events paved the way for balloons to be used widely in the world. Although it never became a popular or widespread method of air travel, man’s fascination with these marvels that seem to be suspended in air on their own has continued unabated. Grown men seem to have the same feeling towards a hot air balloon as kids have towards their helium balloons.