When were typewriters first released to the general public??
1867 AD The First Commercial Typewriter The first practical typewriter was conceived by three American inventors and friends in 1867: Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samual W. Soule. www.maxmon.com/1867ad.htm Following William Austin Burt’s attempt at a typewriter, numerous other innovators leapt into the fray with truly Heath Robinson offerings. Some of these weird and wonderful contraptions were as difficult to use as a Church organ, while others printed by keeping the paper stationary and hurling the rest of the machine against it …… the mind boggles. The first practical typewriting machine was conceived by three American inventors and friends who spent their evenings tinkering together. In 1867, Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samual W. Soule invented what they called the Type-Writer (the hyphen was discarded some years later). Soulé eventually dropped out, but the others kept at it, producing close to thirty experimental models over the next five
