Carlos Glidden - Misplaced Pages

Carlos Glidden (November 8, 1834 – March 11, 1877), along with Christopher Sholes, Frank Haven Hall, and Samuel W. Soule, invented the first practical typewriter at a machine shop in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US. He kept on improving the typewriter until he died.

References

Koichi and Motoko Yasuoka: Myth of QWERTY Keyboard, NTT Publishing, Tokyo (2008).
Invention of the Typewriter Archived 2011-12-20 at the Wayback Machine, Wisconsin Historical Marker, Retrieved May 11, 2008.
Carlos Glidden
Carlos Glidden: The New Type Writer,Scientific American, 27(9), p.132 (1872).
U. S. Patents Nos. 200351 & 470784.

v t e Typewriters
Manufacturers	Brother Commodore International E. Remington and Sons IBM Imperial Typewriter Company Oliver Typewriter Company Olivetti Royal Typewriter Company Sharp Silver Seiko Smith Corona Underwood Typewriter Company Xerox
Models	Blickensderfer typewriter Data Recall Diamond Hammond Typewriter Hansen Writing Ball IBM Selectric Sholes and Glidden typewriter Olivetti Valentine Hermes 3000
Prominent figures	Lucien Stephen Crandall Frank Haven Hall James Densmore Carlos Glidden Rasmus Malling-Hansen Henry Mill John Pratt Clarence Seamans Christopher Sholes James Fields Smathers Lyman Cornelius Smith Samuel W. Soulé Kyota Sugimoto Ettore Sottsass
Components	Keyboard layout AZERTY Dvorak Turkish F HCESAR QWERTY QWERTZ QZERTY Platen
Related equipment	Carbon paper Correction fluid Erasing shield Ink ribbon Stenotype Typewriter desk Typewriter eraser
Other scripts	Chinese Japanese Thai
Cultural and health aspects	Boston Typewriter Orchestra Copy typist Samizdat Speed typing contest The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog Touch typing

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