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Sholes and Glidden Typewriter
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The Story
Kleinstuber's Machine Shop (Milwaukee, WI)...
1) Christopher Sholes was working on something that can number pages in a book
2) Samuel Soule joined in
3) Sholes & Soule showed their work to Carlos Glidden (1867)
-he said, "can it do letters too?"
Some time later...
Some more time later...
7) James Densmore bought a share of the patent
- even thought he had never seen it
8) Densmore saw it and thought it "needed some improving"
A few years later...
About the Machine
- the keys are attached to a "type-bar"
- the operator pushes on the key and the bar swings up to hit the paper
- typing was hidden from view so the carriage was hinged so you could check your work
- a foot pedal returns the page to type the next line
- QWERTY keyboard
- looks like a sewing machine because the manufacturer (Remington Arms Co.) also made sewing machines
- decorated with floral designs because typing was seen as women's work
- this started to bring women into the workplace
Sholes and Glidden Typewriter
- Patented in 1898.
- It was invented by...
Christopher Sholes
Carlos Glidden
and Samuel Soule
- in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- It was the first commercially successful typewriter.
4) Sholes saw an article about a "pterotype" (July 1867)
- pterotype is an earlier typing machine
- he thought it was too complicated
- so he made his own
5) Sholes enlisted Soule to help, and Glidden for financial support
6) Patent 1868
pterotype
9) Soule and Glidden left, leaving Sholes and Densmore the sole owners
10) they sold the patent to Remington Arms Co. (1873)
- Sholes sold his 1/2 for $12,000
- Densmore eventually gained $1.5 million
11) The first typewriter is sold by Remington (1874)
often is put on a sewing table because Remington makes sewing machines
an ad for the typewriter