Giuseppe Ravizza
Giuseppe Ravizza (born March 19, 1811 in Novara , † October 30, 1885 in Livorno ) was an Italian legal scholar and inventor who further developed the typewriter and was the first to use the ribbon , which he is considered to have invented.
Ravizza studied law at the University of Turin and then worked as a lawyer in Novara. In 1837 he built his first typewriter, for which he used piano keys. In 1855 he patented his harpsichord Scrivano (= "writing piano") with 32 keys and presented the invention in 1856 at the Turin industrial exhibition. He used type levers for the first time , which were attached in a circle, but as rocking levers hit the platen from below . The machine was equipped with a two-row keypad on which the letters were arranged in alphabetical order. Switching, carriage return and coloring with a ribbon set the models apart and turned them into typewriters, with which - according to Ravizza - one could write three times as fast as with a pen . Ravizza constructed a total of 17 models.
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| SURNAME | Ravizza, Giuseppe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian inventor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 19, 1811 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Novara |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 30, 1885 |
| Place of death | Livorno |