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=The most important invention would have to be the typewriter. Christopher Latham Sholes was the inventer of the first original typewriter.=

Christopher Latham Sholes was born on February 14, 1819, near Mooresburg, Pennsylvania. He died on February 17, 1890, in Milwaukee. Sholes is the U.S. inventor who developed the typewriter. The idea began at Kleinsteuber's Machine Shop in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the year 1868. A local publisher-politician-philosopher named Christopher Latham Sholes spent hours at Kleinstuber's with tinkerers. It's said Sholes was working on a machine to automatically number the pages in books, when one of his friends suggested the idea might be extended to a device to print the entire alphabet. An article from was passed around, and the gentlemen agreed that "typewriting" was the wave of the future.


 * The original Typewriter was heavily, decorated with colorful decals and gold paint. A foot treadle was provided for the carriage return. It all looks a lot like an old sewing machine. The Sholes keyboard is called the QWERTY keybored because the first six keys in the third row. On the original Sholes keyboard, there was no key for the number '1', or shift key. THE FIRST TYPEWRITTERS COULD ONLY TYPE IN UPPER CASE LETTERS. The first shift key typewriter didn't appear on the market until 1878. Milwaukee for some will always be known as the birth place of the frist typewritter.

Work Cited

http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/typrwriter.htm http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/qwerty.htm http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/index.html **