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]

Wisconsin Historical Marker

References

Koichi and Motoko Yasuoka: Myth of QWERTY Keyboard, NTT Publishing, Tokyo (2008).
Invention of the Typewriter, Wisconsin Historical Marker, Retrieved May 11, 2008.
Carlos Glidden
Carlos Glidden: The New Type Writer,Scientific American, 27(9), p.132 (1872).
U. S. Patents Nos. 200351 & 470784.

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[1] Koichi and Motoko Yasuoka: Myth of QWERTY Keyboard, NTT Publishing, Tokyo (2008).

[2] Invention of the Typewriter, Wisconsin Historical Marker, Retrieved May 11, 2008.

[3] Carlos Glidden

[4] Carlos Glidden: The New Type Writer,Scientific American, 27(9), p.132 (1872).

[5] U. S. Patents Nos. 200351 & 470784.

Typewriters
Manufacturers	Brother Commodore International E. Remington and Sons IBM Imperial Typewriter Company Oliver Typewriter Company Olivetti Royal Typewriter Company Sharp Smith Corona Underwood Typewriter Company Xerox
Models	Blickensderfer typewriter Data Recall Diamond Hammond Typewriter Hansen Writing Ball IBM Selectric typewriter Sholes and Glidden typewriter
Prominent figures	Lucien Stephen Crandall Frank Haven Hall James Densmore Carlos Glidden Rasmus Malling-Hansen Henry Mill John Jonathon Pratt Clarence Seamans Christopher Sholes James Fields Smathers Lyman Cornelius Smith Samuel W. Soulé Kyota Sugimoto
Components	Platen QWERTY