Typewriter

The typewriter helped transform the work industry and change the lives of working women in particular. It helped them launch their own business at the time when females were not as wanted in the work industry  and became a weapon in the fight for women's suffrage. Typewriters inspired many different people like novelists and artists. They were luxury devices which would have been too expensive for many people at the time. They cost  half the average annual salary. The typewriter also increased the speed of writing compared to handwriting. Typewriters are large and heavy and they resemble a piano in size and shape.

Typewriters had different effects on people in the North and South. In the north, it helped create new job opportunities, especially for women, because businesses needed people to type and people to work in offices. This had more people moving to the Northern cities, increasing the popularity and adding more work in offices and factories. The typewriter was also mass- produced in factories, which made more factory jobs. In the South the impact was less important because the economy was still focused on farming, especially cotton. The South relied on enslaved labor, and the typewriter did not change this much. However the growth of cities and businesses in the north, were typewriters where everything people wanted, which made some people move there, which brought up emigration to the Northern states. Even though typewriters helped increase Job opportunities in the north, it didn't directly affect enslaved laborers or work in the south.