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Christopher Latham Sholes
Christopher Latham Sholes was an American inventor, newspaper publisher, politician, and Wisconsin pioneer. He was the inventor of the QWERTY keyboard, and—along with Samuel W. Soule, Carlos Glidden, and John Pratt—has been described as one of the inventors of the first typewriter in the United States. In his time, he went by the names C. Latham Sholes, Latham Sholes, or C. L. Sholes, but never "C…
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science · American inventor and politician (1819–1890) · inventor · politician · journalist · editor · publisher · also Christopher Latham Sholes, Christopher Sholes, Sholes
Born 14 February 1819 · Died 17 February 1890 · Q453351
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2001).
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1890· 2 entries
Died 1890-02-17.
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After battling tuberculosis for nine years
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1875· 1 entry
Awarded John Scott Award (1875).
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1851· 1 entry
And then in 1853 he led the campaign in the Wisconsin State Assembly
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1845· 1 entry
Sholes was working as editor of the Southport Telegraph, a small newspaper in Kenosha
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1837· 1 entry
And later to Southport, Wisconsin (present-day Kenosha)
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1819· 1 entry
Born 1819-02-14.
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