Christopher Latham Sholes, American publisher and politician (born 1819)

Christopher Latham Sholes

American publisher and politician (1819–1890)

Christopher Latham Sholes 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…