AMERICA WAS CHRISTOPHER LATHAM SHOLES (July 14, 1868) —
The Difficult Birth Of The Typewriter Submitted by on 12 September 2012 Its inventor didn’t believe in it. In America William Burt of Detroit patented the first primitive machine, a typographer, in 1829. The next significant machine was a “mechanical chirographer,” patented by Charles Thurber, of Massachusetts, in 1843.
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