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Before. The Civil War was from 1861 to 1865. The first practical typewriter was invented in 1868 and marketed in 1873. See the Related Link below.
From 1829 to 1870, many printing or typing machines were patented by inventors in Europe and America, but none went into commercial production. Abraham Lincoln lived from 1809 to 1865. In 1865, John Pratt, of Centre, Alabama, built a machine called the Pterotype which appeared in an 1867 Scientific American article[5] and inspired other inventors. Between 1864 and 1867 Peter Mitterhofer, a carpenter from South Tyrol (former part of Austria) developed several models and a fully functioning prototype typewriter in 1867.[6] It is conceivable, but unlikely, that Lincoln had access to a typewriter. If he had it is unlikely that he would have been able to use it with any degree of dexterity - he could have written quicker by hand.
Lee S. Burridge created the type writing machine.
The final 35 years of the 1800s were a busy time for inventors. There were many things invented during this time including the cash register and braille typewriter.
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In the 1860s there were early typewriters invented in Italy, Brazil, Austria, Denmark and the US.The first commercially sold typewriter seems to be the Hansen Writing Ball, which was sold in Denmark in 1865.The first typewriter to be commercially successful was invented in 1867 by C. Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. The patent was sold to Remington. Remington's first commercial machine appeared in 1873. It was also the first appearance of the QWERTY keyboard.I'm pretty sure it was invented in Italy...but if I was you I'd check this elsewhere on the web to make sure it's correct.Thanks
Christopher Latham Sholes (1819-1890) invented the typewriter in 1867. Sholes was a U.S. mechanical engineer who invented the first practical modern typewriter, patented in 1868. Sholes invented the typewriter with partners S. W. Soule and G. Glidden, that was manufactured (by Remington Arms Company) in 1873. He was born February 14, 1819 in Mooresburg, Pennsylvania, and died on February 17, 1890 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The typewriter was invented in the United States in 1868 by Christopher Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel Soule in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They received a patent for their invention in 1873.
The typewriter was invented by Christopher Latham Sholes, Samuel Soule, and Carlos Glidden in the Victorian era. Their prototype, developed in 1867, paved the way for the modern typewriter design that followed.
In Britain in 1714, Henry Mill patented a machine that was very similar to what we know as a typewriter. An Italian named Pellegrino Turri invented a typewriter sometime prior to 1808. In 1829, an American named William Austin Burt patented a machine called the "Typowriter". He is usually called the Father of the typewriter.
In 1867, Christopher Sholes, Carlos Glidden and Samuel Soule invented the first practical mechanical typewriter machine.
The typewriter was invented in the 1860s by Christopher Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel Soule in the United States, particularly in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The first commercially successful typewriter, the Sholes and Glidden typewriter, was brought to market by the gun manufacturer E. Remington and Sons in 1874.
The typewriter was not invented by a black man. Christopher Latham Sholes, an American newspaper editor and printer, is credited with inventing the first practical typewriter in 1868.
The printing press was invented before the typewriter. Johannes Gutenberg developed the printing press around 1440, while the typewriter was invented by Christopher Sholes in 1867.
Christopher Sholes, a newspaper editor from Milwaukee in the early 1870s.
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