While Wheaton has the longest escalators in the Western Hemisphere, WMATAâs longest are only in 7th place worldwide. The Moscow Metro station at Park Pobedy has the longest in the world, at 413 feet. Stations in St. Petersburg, Kiev, and Prague also have longer escalators than at Wheaton.
The IBM Selectric was introduced in 1961 (just like me!), and was revolutionary, in that the platen does not move, but instead the type element moves. The single type element (ball) has 88 characters on it, in 4 rows. This typewriter is a model 72, with a cloth ribbon in a plastic cartridge. It is a narrow platen model, they were available in 3 widths that I know of.
Christopher Latham Sholes (1819 1890), a U.S mechanical engineer, invented the first practical modern typewriter with his partners S.W Soule and G.Glidden in 1866. The invention was patented in 1868, and was manufactured (by Remington Arms Company) in 1873.he first electric typewriter was the Blickensderfer. In 1944, IBM designed the first typewriter with proportional spacing. Pellegrine Tarri made the first typewriter proven to work in 1801 and invented carbon paper in 1808.