If there is a conflict between ethical responsibilities and laws, professional counselors should make known their commitment to the Code of Ethics and work to alleviate the conflict. Counselors may follow legal requirements or regulations if the ethical conflict cannot be resolved in this manner.
It was in this form that Sholes, Glidden and Soule were granted patents for their invention on June 23, 1868 and July 14. The first document to be produced on a typewriter was a contract that Sholes had written, in his capacity as the Comptroller for the city of Milwaukee.
At the end of the nineteenth century, the term typewriter was also applied to a person who used a typing machine. Play media Video on the history of typewriters and how they operate The first commercial typewriters were introduced in 1874, but did not become common in offices until after the mid-1880s.