American inventor, newspaper publisher, politician and Wisconsin pioneer, recognized as the inventor of the QWERTY keyboard and one of the patentees, with Frank Haven Hall, Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule, of the first commercially successful typewriter in 1868.
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Patented jointly in 1868 with Frank Haven Hall, Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule (co-patentees not wired to a separate entity this pass; recorded as a gap).
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1. Christopher Latham Sholes (Wikipedia)
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Christopher Latham Sholes (February 14, 1819 - February 17, 1890) was an American inventor, newspaper publisher, politician, and Wisconsin pioneer.
Typewriter (Wikipedia)
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The first typewriter to be commercially successful was patented in 1868 by Americans Christopher Latham Sholes, Frank Haven Hall, Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule.
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