1816-1889. US inventor of the typewriter and
breech-loading rifle that bear his name. He
began manufacturing typewriters 1873, using
the patent of Christopher Sholes (1819-1890),
and made improvements that resulted five
years later in the first machine with a shift
key, thus providing lower-case letters as
well as capital letters. The Remington rifle
and carbine, which had a falling block breech
and a tubular magazine, were developed in
collaboration with his father.