June 23 is National Typewriter Day, which celebrates the 1st commercially successful typewriter — which was patented by ...

It was a Milwaukeean, Christopher Latham Sholes, who invented the first commercially successful typewriter in 1868. He also arranged the letters of the QWERTY keyboard ...

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.

In 1860, a congressional resolution authorized creation of the United States Government Printing Office, which opened the following year.

Although it will go widely unrecognized, today is an important date in history for it was on June 23, 1868, that Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for the typewriter.

In 1868, Christopher Sholes and his associate Carlos Glidden secured a patent for what was to become the basis of the modern typewriter. Sholes and Glidden sold their patent to Densmore and Yost ...

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 ...

The Sholes and Glidden typewriter was the first commercially successful typewriter. It was designed by Christopher Sholes, Samuel Soule and Carlos Glidden in the late 1860s.

DANVILLE — Among the many historically relevant individuals who grew up in the Valley is a man born in Moorseville, Chistopher Sholes, whom historians credit with inventing the first typewriter ...