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...firm of Sholes, Glidden & Soulé developed a practical machine in the U. S. in 1867, and typewriters began to be marketed by Remington in 1874. First U. S. patent on a writing-machine, however, was issued in 1829 to a remarkable man named William Austin Burt. On this device, in March 1830, Inventor Burt whacked out the first letter typewritten in the U.S. Last week the Smithsonian Institution proudly announced that it had acquired and would shortly display this message...
...Inventor Burt's machine, made entirely of wood, was destroyed in the Patent Office fire of 1836. It was a ponderous gadget with the type carried on a circular frame operated by a lever. That Burt could write faster with his machine than by hand is highly improbable. Yet it had a feature that was lacking in some commercial machines for many years: separate sets of capital and lower-case letters, with a shift mechanism for changing from one to the other...
Playing in near freezing temperature on the Jarvis Field Courts. David S. Burt '40 outlasted Hubert H. Hauck '38 to win the finals of the University A tennis tournament 2-6, 6-4, 7-5 and become the first Freshman to win the annual competition in fifteen years. Burt played the number one position on the Exeter Academy team for three years without losing a single school match...
George F. Lowman '38, who met Burt in the semi-finals, also gained the distinction of taking a set from the Exeter flash. In the other semi-final clash, Hauck had little trouble with the soft stroking Alvah Sulloway, drubbing...
...this affair. Casey Wynn '40 disposed of Fuld in three sets in the third round, in the fourth he himself met a 6-0, 6-1 defeat at the hands of Howard P. Kahn 1L. The latter, of Michigan racket fame, was in turn vanquished by the invincible Burt...