apart from being the inventor of this product, what else was he known for?
He was a newspaper publisher and Wisconsin politician
Christopher Latham Sholes
Carlos Glidden and John Pratt, has been contended to be one of the inventors of the first typewriter in the United States. He was also a newspaper publisher and Wisconsin politician.
when was the sholes and glidden typewriter invented July 1, 1874 who invented it? Christopher Latham Sholes could you tell me some details about its design? It had escapement (a mechanism governing carriage movement) adapted from clockwork, keys adapted from telegraph machines and type hammers adapted from the piano anything special about its keypad? The QWERTY keyboard was invented during the course of the typewriter's development what was the reason behind the invention? In earlier design pressing adjoining keys in quick succession would cause their typebars to collide and jam the machine so to mitigate this problem, keys were reordered using analysis of letter frequency and trial and error
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Christopher Latham Sholes [SEP] Introduction
Christopher Latham Sholes (February 14, 1819 – February 17, 1890) was an American inventor who invented the QWERTY keyboard, and, along with Samuel W. Soule, Carlos Glidden and John Pratt, has been contended to be one of the inventors of the first typewriter in the United States. He was also a newspaper publisher and Wisconsin politician.