DANVILLE — Among the many historically relevant individuals who grew up in the Valley is a man born in Mooresburg, Chistopher Sholes, whom historians credit with inventing the first typewriter. “It ...
It’s there every day underneath our fingertips when we draft an email or fire off a text message. It’s so ubiquitous we forget that someone had to invent it, that it wasn’t always this way. It was a ...
OnMilwaukee is the media sposor for QWERTYFEST MKE, a festival and celebration of the 150-year anniversary of the typewriter's invention in Milwaukee. Find out more here.Brian Fette is a Milwaukee ...
Sholes and Glidden gussied up an early model with floral ornaments, in imitation of sewing machines. Alamy In 1866, Christopher Latham Sholes, a Wisconsin newspaper publisher and former state senator, ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The QWERTY keyboard was invented by Christopher Latham Sholes in the 1870s – and has stayed around ever since. Today, QWERTY's widespread adoption ...