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<\/a><\/p>\n1868 patent drawing for Shole’s typewriter \/ National Archives (click to view\u00a0patent)<\/em><\/p>\n Although various forms of the\u00a0typewriter had been around for many years, the first practical and commercially successful typewriter was invented by Christopher Latham Sholes<\/a>, a newspaper publisher and politician. On June 23, 1868, Sholes and his partners, Carlos S. Glidden<\/a> and Samuel W. Soule, were granted a patent for their “Type-Writer”\u00a0machine. The initial design was described as “a cross between a piano and a kitchen table.”<\/p>\n Sholes & Glidden typewriter 1874<\/em><\/p>\n After receiving the patent, Sholes continued to refine\u00a0the design and invented\u00a0the QWERTY keyboard to prevent the keys from jamming and improve typing speed. The QWERTY layout, with some modifications, is still used today on modern keyboards. Because the keys struck upwards, the typist could not see the characters as they were typed.\u00a0E. Remington and Sons, then famous\u00a0for manufacturing sewing machines, acquired the patents for the Sholes &\u00a0Glidden Type-Writer and mass produced the machines for commercial use.<\/p>\n Typewriting department, National Cash Register, c.1902 \/ Library of Congress<\/em><\/p>\n Although the general public was initially skeptical of the typewriter, industrialization during the late 19th century produced a business environment well suited for the device. The typewriter\u00a0helped to increase productivity by allowing an operator to type substantially faster than writing by hand. The typewriter is also credited with bringing more women into the workplace. By the turn of the century, an influx of women entered the clerical workforce\u00a0as typists in offices.<\/p>\n For decades, typewriters were\u00a0an integral\u00a0part of business and personal correspondence. Although no longer in use today, there’s no denying its significant impact on the world.<\/p>\n Do you have typists in your family tree?\u00a0Or do you perhaps still have your old typewriter around the house?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Do you remember the days of using a typewriter? After the\u00a0introduction of the first commercially successful typewriter, the mechanical marvel quickly became an indispensable tool, transforming the way the world communicated\u00a0in both business and the home. 1868 patent drawing for Shole’s typewriter \/ National Archives (click to view\u00a0patent) Although various forms of the\u00a0typewriter had been around for many years, the first practical and commercially successful typewriter was invented by Christopher Latham Sholes, a newspaper publisher… Read the full story<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":89291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3781],"tags":[6385,6032,6384],"class_list":["post-89278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-research","tag-christopher-latham-sholes","tag-patents","tag-typewriter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89278"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97908,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89278\/revisions\/97908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Patents:](\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Sholes-Glidden-600x450.jpg\")
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