Older Than deck / Inventions and everyday things
Typewriter (Sholes and Glidden)
Patented
1868
Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden and Samuel Soulé’s type-writing machine.
Sources and checks
Checked 2026-11-01: Researched by Codex (two independent publishers, verbatim quotes); every counted quote re-found on its page by the server check (content-verify, or content-verify-pdf for PDFs); scope and plausibility reviewed by Claude (AI build agent). Quotes are short passages from each source; for dates the quote is the year as printed, read in context.
“dated June 23, 1868.”United States Patent Office — original patent text hosted by Google Patents: source, retrieved 2026-11-01; quote re-found by the server check
“As patented in June and July, 1868”Thomas Fehring — ASME Milwaukee Section, Sholes & Glidden Type Writer landmark brochure (2011): source, retrieved 2026-11-01; quote found in the PDF’s text by content-verify-pdf
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