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Carlos Glidden

Carlos Glidden (1834-1877) invented the first practical typewriter along with Christopher Sholes, Frank Haven Hall, and Samuel W. Soule at a machine shop in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He continued improving the typewriter until his death. Glidden kept working to enhance the typewriter and received several patents for his work.

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Carlos Glidden

Carlos Glidden (1834-1877) invented the first practical typewriter along with Christopher Sholes, Frank Haven Hall, and Samuel W. Soule at a machine shop in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He continued improving the typewriter until his death. Glidden kept working to enhance the typewriter and received several patents for his work.

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Carlos Glidden

Carlos Glidden (November 8, 1834 – March 11,


1877),[1] along with Christopher Sholes, Frank Haven
Hall, and Samuel W. Soule, invented the first practical
typewriter at a machine shop in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin.[2][3] He kept on improving the typewriter
until he died.[4][5]

References
1. Koichi and Motoko Yasuoka: Myth of QWERTY
Keyboard, NTT Publishing, Tokyo (2008).
Wisconsin Historical Marker
2. Invention of the Typewriter (http://www.wisconsi
nhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&t
erm_id=12319&term_type_id=2&term_type_tex
t=Places&letter=I), Wisconsin Historical Marker, Retrieved May 11, 2008.
3. Carlos Glidden (http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=13
07&keyword=glidden)
4. Carlos Glidden: The New Type Writer,Scientific American, 27(9), p.132 (1872). (http://babel.hat
hitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.70756375;seq=448)
5. U. S. Patents Nos. 200351 & 470784.

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