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Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer".
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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…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Typewriter
Mechanical device for typing characters
A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for typing characters. Typically, a typewriter has an array of keys, and each one causes a different single character to be produced on paper by striking an inked ribbon selectively against the paper with a type element.…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)