where was he born?
Mooresburg, in Montour County, Pennsylvania
Christopher Latham Sholes
Born in Mooresburg, in Montour County, Pennsylvania, Sholes moved to nearby 
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 apart from being the inventor of this product, what else was he known for? He was a newspaper publisher and Wisconsin politician
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Christopher Latham Sholes [SEP] Youth and political career
Born in Mooresburg, in Montour County, Pennsylvania, Sholes moved to nearby Danville and worked there as an apprentice to a printer. After completing his apprenticeship, Sholes moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1837, and later to Southport, Wisconsin (present-day Kenosha). He became a newspaper publisher and politician, serving in the Wisconsin State Senate from 1848 to 1849 as a Democrat, in the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1852 to 1853 as a Free Soiler, and again in the Senate as a Republican from 1856 to 1857. He was instrumental in the successful movement to abolish capital punishment in Wisconsin; his newspaper, "The Kenosha Telegraph", reported on the trial of John McCaffary in 1851, and then in 1853 he led the campaign in the Wisconsin State Assembly.