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TIL that one of the earliest typewriters, built by Pellegrino Turri in 1801, didn’t use an ink ribbon at all, he invented carbon paper to transfer the text, which later gave us “cc” (carbon copy) in emails.

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From Reddit - r/todayilearned: TIL that one of the earliest typewriters, built by Pellegrino Turri in 1801, didn’t use an ink ribbon at all, he invented carbon paper to transfer the text, which later gave us “cc” (carbon copy) in emails.

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TIL that one of the earliest typewriters, built by Pellegrino Turri in 1801, didn’t use an ink ribbon at all, he invented carbon paper to transfer the text, which later gave us “cc” (carbon copy) in emails.