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By the time the United States had entered the war, most American typewriter manufacturers had changed over to the production of things like bombsights and rifle barrels. Much as the war needed typewriters, it needed guns more. The lack of new typewriters sent the War Department scrambling for whatever machines it could find, in whatever shape; this led naturally to the shop of Martin Tytell. His sales business was nonexistent and his income from rentals slim, and he began to do more and more work for the government, fixing up used machines. In 1943 the War Department got a windfall of Remington typewriters designed originally to be sold in Siam. By then Martin was back in the service, in the Army this time, so Pearl (by then Mrs. Tytell) went down to the Pentagon and examined the machines and saw that they could be converted from Siamese to what the military required.
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The U. S. Consulate General at Havana... is an example of an early user of at least one typewriter: Under longtime consular officer Ramon O. Williams, that office forwarded to Washington typed enclosures to despatches as early as December 1888. The American legation at Madrid obtained a typewriter in the spring of 1893, but confined its use at first to preparing enclosures and copies for the Department of handwritten notes sent to the Spanish foreign ministry. But in September 1894, Minister Hannis Taylor, until recently an Alabama lawyer, signed Madrid's first typed despatch to the Department. The mission used its new machine extensively thereafter.
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Telecommunications changes have run a similar course, moving people from typewriter to computer and on to the Net, he said. "You could visit the Smithsonian in Washington, or communicate with a friend in New Zealand. Now, what's emerging is the third effect, where society is going to change the way people live and the way people work."
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