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Carlos Glidden

Carlos Glidden

Carlos Glidden (November 8, 1834 – March 11, 1877), along with Christopher Sholes, Frank Haven Hall, and Samuel W. Soule, invented the first practical typewriter at a machine shop in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US. He kept on improving the typewriter until he died.

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  • 1877 deaths
  • 19th-century American engineers
  • 19th-century American inventors
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  • Engineers from Milwaukee
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  • Typewriters