The last one to be made in a factory in Britain rolled off a production line in Wrexham - 183 years after a machine was patented as the first typewriter.

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One of his first successes: IBM's Model B electric typewriter (a precursor to the Selectric).

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New technologies, such as the typewriter, allowed many women to support themselves financially for the first time, and many flocked to the cities.

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