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A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for typing characters. The first commercially successful typewriter was patented in 1868 by Americans Christopher Latham Sholes, Frank Haven Hall, Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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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. Typewriter (Wikipedia)
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A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for typing characters.
1. 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 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1. 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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