Giuseppe Ravizza

Giuseppe Ravizza ( born March 19, 1811 in Novara, † October 30, 1885 in Livorno ) was an Italian lawyer and inventor who advanced the typewriter, and the first began the ribbon, as its inventor, he is.

Ravizza studied law at the University of Turin and subsequently worked as a lawyer in Novara. In 1837 he built his first typewriter, which he used for piano keys. In 1855 he patented his harpsichord Scrivano ( = " write piano " ) with 32 keys and presented the invention in 1856 at the industrial exhibition Turin. He used the first type levers that were mounted circular, but as a rocker arm of pitched down on the platen. The machine was equipped with a double-row keyboard on which the letters were arranged in alphabetical order. Switching, carriage return and coloring using color band recorded from the models and made them typewriters with which one - according Ravizza - write three times as fast as could to the spring. Ravizza constructed a total of 17 models.