Christopher Latham Sholes

Born

February 14, 1819

Died

February 17, 1890 (aged 71)

Known as

inventor, politician, journalist, editor, publisher

Christopher Latham Sholes was an American inventor, newspaper publisher, politician, and Wisconsin pioneer. He was the inventor of the QWERTY keyboard, and—along with Samuel W. Soule, Carlos Glidden, and John Pratt—has been described as one of the inventors of the first typewriter in the United States. In his time, he went by the names C. Latham Sholes, Latham Sholes, or C. L. Sholes, but never "Christopher Sholes" or "Christopher L. Sholes".

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