- Born
- November 8, 1834
- Died
- March 11, 1877 (aged 42)
- Known as
- engineer, inventor, lawyer
Carlos Glidden, along with Christopher Sholes, Frank Haven Hall, and Samuel W. Soule, invented the first practical typewriter at a machine shop in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US. He kept on improving the typewriter until he died.
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