On 1 July, 1874, the world's first commercially successful typewriter, the "Sholes & Glidden Type Writer", went on sale. Christopher Latham Sholes and Carlos Glidden had started developing their ...
The typewriter owes its creation to Christopher Sholes, a Milwaukee printer who, inspired by a magazine article, collaborated with Carlos Glidden to develop the first commercially successful model.
The standard typewriter keyboard layout used throughout the world. Q, W, E, R, T and Y are the letter keys starting at the top left, alphabetic row. Designed by Christopher Sholes, who invented ...