Saturday, February 17, 2024

Christopher Latham Sholes Death Anniversary


 

Christopher Latham Sholes, who passed away on 17 February 1890, was an American inventor who invented the QWERTY keyboard, and along with Samuel W. Soule, Carlos Glidden and John Pratt, has been contended as one of the inventors of the first typewriter in the United States. He was also a newspaper publisher and Wisconsin politician.

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