When was the first typewriter invented and who invented it?

Answer 1

Christopher Latham Sholes invented the first working typewriter in 1873 in Milwaukee Wisconsin. The unit is on display at the Middle school I went to named after him.

He introduced the qwerty keyboard to speed typing also.

Answer 2

The first typewriter was invented in 1868 by Christopher Latham Sholes, Samuel Soule, and Carlos Glidden. This early model, called the Sholes and Glidden typewriter, eventually evolved into the popular Remington typewriter.

Answer 3

In 1714, Henry Mill obtained a patent in Britain for a machine that, from the patent, appears to have been similar to a typewriter. The patent shows that this machine was actually created: "he hath by his great study and pain's & expense invented and brought to perfection an artificial machine or method for impressing or transcribing of letters, one after another, as in writing, whereby all writing whatsoever may be engrossed in paper or parchment so neat and exact as not to be distinguished from print; that the said machine or method may be of great use in settlements and public recors, the impression being deeper and more lasting than any other writing, and not to be erased or counterfeited without manifest discovery"

Answer 4

An Englishman called Henry Mill, in 1714, patented a machine that you could call a typewriter. However it cannot be proven that it was built and worked succefully.

That accolade must go to an Italian called Pellegrino Turri who, almost a hundred years later in 1808, built his typewriter for a friend who was blind.

This was followed by many devices on both sides of the Atlantic, and eventually, in 1870, the writing ball of Malling Hansen, from Denmark, became the first commercially successful writing machine.

Christopher Sholes in 1867, patented his machine, The Sholes and Glidden Type Writer, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. And this went into production in 1873 at the Remington sewing machine factory.

Its successor, The Remington became the successful model with its QWERTY keyboard and upper and lower case letters much as we know them today.