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Christopher Latham Sholes

American politician

Died when: 71 years 3 days (852 months)
Star Sign: Aquarius

 

Christopher Latham Sholes

Christopher Latham Sholes (February 14, 1819 – February 17, 1890) was an American inventor who invented the QWERTY keyboard, and, along with Samuel W.Soule, Carlos Glidden and John Pratt, has been contended to be one of the inventors of the first typewriter in the United States.

He was also a newspaper publisher and Wisconsin politician.In his time, Sholes 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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