Sholes and Glidden typewriter seeking to diversify, Remington further refined the typewriter before finally placing it on the market on July 1, 1874. During its development, the typewriter evolved from a crude curiosity into a practical device, the basic form of which became the industry standard. The machine incorporated elements which became fundamental to typewriter design, including a cylindrical platen and a four-rowed QWERTY keyboard. Several design deficiencies remained, however. The Sholes and Glidden could print only upper-case letters—an issue remedied in its successor, the Remington No. 2—and was a "blind writer", meaning the typist could not see what was being written as it
Chinese typewriter typewriter in the music video for "U Can't Touch This". The move, with its fast paced and large gestures, supposedly resembles a person working on a huge, complex typewriter. The Chinese typewriter was ultimately eclipsed and made redundant with the introduction of computerised word processing, pioneered by engineer and dissident Wan Runnan and his partners when they formed Stone Emerging Industries Company () in 1984 in Zhongguancun, China's "Silicon Valley". Stone developed software to allow a Brother Industries dot matrix printer, distributed by Mitsui, to print Chinese characters and released the system as the MS-2400. Chinese typewriter A Chinese typewriter