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  Smart Computing Encyclopedia Entry - Christopher Sholes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Christopher Sholes not only invented the first practical typewriter, he also designed and developed the standard QWERTY keyboard layout that is familiar to many typists today.
Sholes was born in Danville, Pa., in 1819, where he gained valuable experience during his teenage years working as an apprentice with a local printer.
Sholes continued to develop improvements for the typewriter, such as adding the SHIFT key in 1878 to enable the typist to choose between lowercase and uppercase letters.
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 Christopher Latham Sholes
Sholes was so intrigued by the idea that he spent the remainder of his life on the project.
To fix this problem, Sholes obtained a list of the most common letters used in English, and rearranged his keyboard from an alphabetic arrangement to one in which the most common pairs of letters were spread fairly far apart on the keyboard.
Sholes had never imagined that typing would ever be faster than handwriting, which is usually 20 words per minute (WPM) or less.
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 Christopher Sholes
Christopher Latham Sholes (February 14, 1819 - February 17, 1890) is an American who contributed to the development of the typewriter.
Born in Mooresburg, Pennsylvania, Sholes moved to nearby Danville as a teenager, where he worked as an apprentice to a printer.
Along with Samuel W. Soule and Carlos Glidden, Sholes was granted a patent for the typewriter on June 23, 1868.
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 Christopher Sholes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Christopher Latham Sholes was born on a farm in Mooresburg, Pennsylvania on February, 14, 1819.
As a young man, Sholes served an apprenticeship with a printer for four years before moving with his family to Wisconsin, where he went to work as a printer and later became editor of his "Bender's Newspaper" in Madison, Wisconsin, the Wisconsin inquirer before he married in 1841.
Soon Sholes moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin to return to editing.
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 Inventors
Fact is that Sholes was the creative genius behind the first typewriter to be produced in numbers and fact is that many of the basic principles he introduced (the QWERTY keyboard!) set standards for the industry.
Sholes is the only typewriter inventor whose biography was written by more than one author and extensive details about his life are available.
Sholes was a printer and newspaper man who liked to tinker in a local workshop in Milwaukee, Wis., with his friend Soule.
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 AmericanHeritage.com / Christopher Latham Sholes: the Seventy-sixth Inventor of the Typewriter
AmericanHeritage.com / Christopher Latham Sholes: the Seventy-sixth Inventor of the Typewriter
Christopher Latham Sholes: the Seventy-sixth Inventor of the Typewriter
Sholes, who had originally arranged them alphabetically, worked out the most frequent combinations of letters in English, then scattered them as widely as possible so they’d be less likely to foul each other.
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 Christopher Sholes Summary
Sholes' father, Orrin, served in the War of 1812 and was rewarded for his service with a gift of land in Pennsylvania.
This led Sholes to develop a moving cylindrical carriage to hold the paper, and the inked belt, or ribbon, that would be located between the type and the paper.
Sholes was quite proud of one social consequence of the typewriter--it opened office careers to women.
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 1st FEATURE ARTICLE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Sholes and both of his partners were two-finger typists, and never dreamed anyone would ever want to use both hands.
Christopher Sholes was proud of what his machine had done for women.
Sholes was never wealthy, and during a time when he needed money he sold his royalty rights for $12,000 to James Denser, his financial backer during many stages of the typewriter project.
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 Christopher Sholes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Along with Samuel W.Soule and Carlos Glidden,Sholes was granted a patent for the typewriter on June 23, 1868.His version of the typewriter was based on a page-numbering machine he receiveda patent for in 1864.
Sholes sold the rights tohis typewriter to the Remington Arms Company in 1872 for $12,000.
He continued to work on new developments for the typewriter throughout the 1870s, which including the QWERTY keyboard.Sholes created the system after noticing that the type bars on many early typewriters jammed easily.
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 CHRISTOPHER SHOLES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Christopher Latham Sholes é um americano que contribua ao desenvolvimento da máquina de escrever.
Após ter terminado seu apprenticeship, Sholes moveu-se para Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Sholes vendeu as direitas a sua máquina de escrever ao Remington Braços Companhia em 1872 para $12.000.
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 Christopher Sholes - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Christopher Sholes - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Sholes, Christopher Latham (1819-1890), American inventor, printer, and journalist.
The National Inventors Hall of Fame is a U.S. organization founded in 1973 to honor successful inventors.
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 sholes
The man primarily responsible for developing the first commercially successful typewriter was Christopher Latham Sholes, together with his associates Carlos Glidden and Samuel Soule.
Sholes, Glidden and Soule sold their patent rights to entrepreneur James Densmore who, in turn, signed a manufacturing deal with Philo Remington of the Remington small arms company.
Yet in this portrait, Sholes is shown posing not with the large, heavy Remington desk machine but with a hand-built prototype of a small, lightweight portable typewriter.
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 Christopher Latham Sholes Biography | World of Invention
Christopher Sholes is known as the father of the typewriter.
Alongside Soulé and Sholes in the same machine shop was Carlos Glidden, who was tinkering with his own design for a spading machine intended to replace the plow.
Sholes worked on improvements to this early design for the next five years, securing several more patents, and sought financial backing to market the typewriter.
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 Why QWERTY was Invented
When Sholes built his first model in 1868, the keys were arranged alphabetically in two rows.
Sholes' solution did not eliminate the problem completely, but it was greatly reduced.
Sholes and Densmore went to Remington, the arms manufacturer, to have their machines mass-produced.
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 Search: Christopher Sholes Typewriter
Christopher Latham Sholes was born on February 14, 1819, near Mooresburg,...
The accredited father of the typewriter was Wisconsin newspaperman, Christopher Latham Sholes.
To borrow from a later day, Christopher Latham Sholes' first typewriter was a small step for the men who built it, but a giant step for womankind.
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 Mountain States Health Alliance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Christopher Sholes, MD Cardiology Consultants of JC "It's a challenge to help my patients alter their lifestyles and attitudes toward a healthy way of living.
Promoting healthy lifestyles to reduce the risk of heart disease is a special interest of Dr. Christopher Sholes, who returned to his hometown of Johnson City after his medical training.
Sholes has special interests in cardiac pacemakers, coronary angioplasty, directional coronary atherectomy, cardiac risk factor modification and preventive cardiac medicine.
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 Search: Christopher Sholes
The first practical typewriter was invented by Christopher Latham Sholes and was marketed by the Remington Arms company in 1873.
Christopher Sholes Born Feb 14 1819 - Died Feb 17 1890 Type Writing Machine Typewriter Patent Number(s) 79,265 Inducted 2001 Christopher Sholes invented the first practical...
Christopher Latham Sholes Christopher Latham Sholes received the first patent for what he called a "type-writer.
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 Christopher Sholes
Christopher Sholes was a very smart man. He invented the type writer, and the key board.
Christopher Sholes invented these items because his hands were hurting because of the pencil.
Christopher Sholes was a very kind person to do all of this for him and for other people.
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 Invent Now | Hall of Fame | Search | Inventor Profile
Christopher Sholes invented the first practical typewriter and introduced the keyboard layout that is familiar today.
As he experimented early on with different versions, Sholes realized that the levers in the type basket would jam when he arranged the keys in alphabetical order.
Sholes enlisted the help of investors to sell his typewriter, but his marketing tactics were not successful.
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 Sholes, Charles C. (Charles Clark), 1816-1867
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Charles C. Sholes (1816-1867) was a pioneer Wisconsin newspaperman, politician, and businessman, and was a brother of Christopher Latham Sholes, famed as the inventor of the typewriter.
There are a few brief references to Sholes' work in New York overseeing the printing and sale of railroad bonds in 1854, to his activities as speaker of the assembly, and to his purchase or telegraph lines serving Madison, Milwaukee, Janesville, and Beloit in 1855.
Sholes, and the Wisconsin State Senate of 1867 of which Sholes was a member.
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 Christopher Sholes - meaning of word
Christopher Latham Sholes (February 14, 1819 - February 17, 1890) is an United States who contributed to the development of the typewriter.
Born in Mooresburg, Pennsylvania, Sholes moved to nearby Danville, Pennsylvania as a teenager, where he worked as an apprentice to a printer (publisher).
Sholes created the system after noticing that the type bars on many early typewriter jammed easily.
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 CHRISTOPHER SHOLES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Christopher Latham Sholes ist ein Amerikaner, der zur Entwicklung der Schreibmaschine beitrug.
Getragen in Mooresburg, bewog Pennsylvania, Sholes auf nahe gelegenes Danville als Jugendliches, in dem er als Lehrling zu einem Drucker arbeitete.
Nachdem er seine Lehre durchgeführt hatte, bewog Sholes auf Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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 The Sholes (QWERTY) Keyboard
The main inventor of the first commercial typewriter, Christopher Latham Sholes, obviously wished to make their typewriters as fast as possible in order to convince people to use them.
The terms home keys and home row refer to the base position for your fingers (excluding thumbs, which are used to hit the space bar) when you're practicing touch typing, which means that you type by touch without looking at the keyboard.
Sholes didn't invent these terms, because he actually gave very little thought to the way in which people would use his invention.
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 christopher sholes education
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 Typewriter History - Invention of the Typewriter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Christopher Sholes, Carlos Glidden and Samuel Soule invented the first practical mechanical typewriter machine.
Based on Sholes’ mechanical typewriter, the first electric typewriter was built by Thomas Alva Edison in the United States in 1872, but the widespread use of electric typewriters was not common until the 1950s.
It was called the "Sholes and Glidden Type Writer," and it was produced by the gunmakers E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, NY from 1874-1878.
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 Christopher Latham Sholes, WHi-33920
A portrait of Christopher Latham Sholes, the inventor of the typewriter.
Sholes was an editor in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and later continued this work in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Sholes invented the typewriter during his time in Kenosha.
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