Typewriter is a machine that was commonly used in the past, and which has keys that are pressed in order to print letters, numbers, or other characters onto paper.
The English claim that it was Henry Mill who invented the typing machine in 1714.
Henry received the first typewriter patent in Britain for a machine that appears to have been similar to a typewriter.
Although many went before him, it is the name of Christopher Latham Sholes that is generally linked to the title of ‘inventor of the typewriter’, as he introduced the first typewriter to be commercially successful in 1868. He worked along with Frank Haven Hall, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel W. Soule.
The working prototype was made by the machinist Matthias Schwalbach. The patent was sold to Densmore and Yost, who made an agreement with E. Remington and Sons, then famous as a manufacturer of sewing machines, to commercialize the machine as the Sholes and Glidden Type-Writer. This was the origin of the term typewriter.
It had a QWERTY keyboard layout, which because of the machine’s success, was slowly adopted by other typewriter manufacturers. Later, many types of typewriters came into the market.
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