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. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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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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A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for typing characters.
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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.
Invented By: Christopher Latham Sholes, Lead section (inventor attribution)
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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A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for typing characters.
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a typewriter for Mozart's friend a blind Viennese pianist Maria Theresia von Paradis (1779)
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