biography
| name: |
Sholes, Christopher Latham
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pronunciation:
[shohlz]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1819–90)
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| biography:
| Inventor, born near Mooresburg, Pennsylvania, USA. An apprentice printer at first, he later worked as a newspaper editor and government official. His best-known invention is the typewriter, which he developed with fellow inventors Carlos Glidden and Samuel Soulé in 1867. A patent was granted in 1868, which Sholes sold to the Remington Arms Company, who then marketed the first Remington Typewriter in 1874. |
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