Christopher Latham Sholes was an American inventor, newspaper editor, and politician, best known for his development of the QWERTY keyboard, which is still widely used in typewriters and computer keyboards today.
Sholes was born on 14 February 1819, in Mooresburg, Pennsylvania. In addition to his work on the keyboard, he had a varied career that included journalism and politics. He served as the editor of several newspapers and held political offices in Wisconsin.
In the early 1860s, Sholes, along with his colleagues Samuel Soule and Carlos Glidden, developed the first practical typewriter. The machine, known as the Sholes and Glidden typewriter, was manufactured by E. Remington and Sons and was first sold in 1874. It featured the QWERTY keyboard layout, designed to prevent jamming of the typebars in the machine, which was a common problem in early typewriters.
The QWERTY keyboard became the standard for typewriters and later adapted for computer keyboards. Despite the development of alternative keyboard layouts, QWERTY has endured as the most widely used and recognized arrangement of keys on keyboards worldwide. Christopher Latham Sholes died on 17 February 1890, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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