The American inventor “Christopher Latham Sholes” took the credit of inventing the first commercially successful Typewriter. He was an American Inventor, who invented the QWERTY Keyboard and also known as the ‘Father of Typewriter’.
He was born on February 14, 1819, at Mooresburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. The first commercial Typewriter was introduced in the year 1874, but become common in office use is after the mid-1880s.
The first Typewriter was invented by “Henry Mill” in 1714, whereas the various re-inventions has been done by many inventors throughout the 1800s. But the credit of inventing the successful Typewriter was achieved by Christopher Latham Sholes.
Sholes was a Politician at Wisconsin and served in both houses of the Wisconsin State Legislature and as a Mayor of Kenosha as well as he was the successful newspaper publisher. He died at the age of 71, on February 17, 1890, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A. after battling with Tuberculosis for 9 long years.
The QWERTY Keyboard is still in use, and Typewriter is the only and the longest word to be written from the first line of the Keyboard. The year 1970s to 1980s has been termed as the transitional era of Typewriter and the use of Computer came in fashion slowly.