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While there was an early electric typewriter produced by Blickensderfer in 1902, the first commercially successful electric typewriter was the Electromatic, beginning mass production around 1930, based on an extensive revision earlier design put into production by Northeast Electric in the mid 1920s. See a timeline of the history of word processors created by students in Computer Science at the University of Maryland here, condensed from this more fully referenced survey.

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