Carlos Glidden Explained

Carlos Glidden (November 8, 1834  - March 11, 1877),^[1] along with Christopher Sholes, Frank Haven Hall, and Samuel W. Soule, invented the first practical typewriter at a machine shop in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US.^{[2] [3]} He kept on improving the typewriter until he died.^{[4] [5]}

Notes and References

1. Koichi and Motoko Yasuoka: Myth of QWERTY Keyboard, NTT Publishing, Tokyo (2008).
2. http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=12319&term_type_id=2&term_type_text=Places&letter=I Invention of the Typewriter
3. http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=1307&keyword=glidden Carlos Glidden
4. Carlos Glidden: The New Type Writer,Scientific American, 27(9), p.132 (1872).
5. U. S. Patents Nos. 200351 & 470784.