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Who invented the keyboard before Christopher Sholes?

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i dont think anyone did

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the basic idea for the modern key board was invented in the mid 1800s. other types of keyboards were used by printers for many years before that Christopher Latham Sholes. Made keyboard


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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.


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Christopher Sholes invented the modern typewriter around l867 ? It was after the civil war as they were not used in that period. Sholes sold his patent to Remington until recently very much a business machines name. It is popularily believed,though with any fungible, mass-produced device such as a typewriter difficult to prove, that the frist popular writer to regularily use one was Mark Twain. (Tom Sawyer) was typed out as a manuscript, rather than hand-written, literal meaning of manuscript. Keyboat usical instruments, that"s a whole nother smoke, Clavichords and such like. There was a modest attempt to revive the clavichord as a sort of intermediate instrument between a piano and a guitar, with a guitar-like sound by some German instrument makes inthe ealry sixties. Despite Berlin Concerts for the Boys in Olive Drab ( USO Army benefits) the idea did not really Twang. it is interesting to speculate if it had it might have changed the course of popular music. Lap Steels are almost a form of clavichord but on a different principle used by C&W musicians.


Were typewriters invented in the middle ages?

No. The middle ages were approximately before 1400 AD. The printing press was not invented until 1450. The first actual typewriter was invented in 1868 by Christopher Sholes, Carlos Glidden, Samuel Soule, and machinist Matthias Schwalbach.


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How many typewriters did Sholes build before making the perfect one?

Depends on what you mean by "the perfect typewriter".Sholes build many prototypes for his typewriter before it was released in the public.The first version (and the first appearance of the dreaded QWERTY keyboard layout) had type bars behind the paper, so people couldn't see what they typed.The later version had type bars in front of the paper that sprang back with springs, which is basically the typewriter as we know now.(Interesting fact is, Sholes actually tried to change the QWERTY layout into something more logical, but the manufacturer declined that change!)


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