Christopher Latham Sholes invented the QWERTY Typewriter
On February 14, 1819, American inventor Christopher Latham Sholes was born, who invented the first practical typewriter and is responsible for the QWERTY keyboard layout still in use today. Printer, Editor, and Politician Born on a farm in Montour County, Pennsylvania, USA, Christopher Latham Sholes worked in Madison, Wisconsin, as a printer and later as editor of Bender’s Newspaper. In this city he was one of the co-founders of the Republican Party of…
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