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Byron Alden Brooks was born on December 12, 1845 at Theresa, Jefferson County, New York, the son of Thompson and Hannah (Parrish) Brooks. Thompson Brooks was the miller of Theresa, and his grist-mill was the environment in which Byron developed his interest in mechanics.
As a boy Byron devised and applied several successful improvements in the mill machinery and further indicated his interest in his eager study of mathematics, in which science he was far enough advanced to teach at the Antwerp (New York) Academy, when at his father's death in 1861 he had to contribute to the support of the family.
In 1866 he entered Wesleyan University at Middletown, Connecticut, where he supported himself by tutoring. Though he lost a year through illness, he completed his work in time to graduate with his class in 1871.
After graduating from the Wesleyan University at Middletown, Connecticut, from 1871 to 1872 Byron Brooks taught at Dobbs Ferry, New York, where he was principal of the Union Free School. From there he went to New York City where he was assistant editor of the National Quarterly Review (1873) and a teacher and principal in the public schools.
As a writer and educator he became interested in the possibilities of the typewriter and as one having some mechanical skill, he studied the machine and attempted improvements. For his first successful improvement he received Patent No. 202, 923, April 30, 1878, the feature of which is the location of both a capital and a small letter on the same striking lever and the shifting of the paper roller by a key to bring either the large or small letter into printing position.
The most important improvement remained to be made, namely, the provision for visible writing, and though Brooks sought to incorporate this feature in a machine which he manufactured and sold as the Brooks Typewriter, he succeeded in making visible only two lines of printing at a time and for lack of any other outstanding features the machine was discontinued.
He sold this patent for $7, 000 to the Remingtons who immediately incorporated the improvement in their next model, the Remington No. 2, the first machine to write other than capital letters and the one from which the universal use of the typewriter dates.
In 1900 the Brooks Typewriter Company was sold to the Union Typewriter Company, which Brooks served as patent expert to the time of his death.
At the time of his death in Brooklyn, New York, he was also working on a printing telegraph.
Byron Alden Brooks is famous for the successful mechanical improvements that he made which led to the evolution of the typewriter. Following this success, Brooks devoted considerable time to typewriter inventions and obtained more than thirty patents, none of which approached the first in importance. He also attempted improvements in type-casting and composing machines and was president of the Bandotype Company, formed to promote his inventions in this field. Brooks also produced a number of written works, such as: A Tragedy (1876); Those Children and Their Teachers (1882); Phil Vernon and His Schoolmasters (1885); and Earth Revisited (1893).
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Brooks married Sarah Davis of Middletown, Connecticut, in 1872, and after her death married, in 1906, Ella J. Ball of Brooklyn, New York.
