The history of the Milwaukee-invented typewriter
It was a Milwaukeean, Christopher Latham Sholes, who invented the first commercially successful typewriter in 1868. He also ...
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1 July 1874: the first commercial typewriter goes on sale
On 1 July, 1874, the world's first commercially successful typewriter, the "Sholes & Glidden Type Writer", went on sale. Christopher Latham Sholes and Carlos Glidden had started developing their ...