Typewriter
Invention and innovation • 19th century
Coming to Wonder Inventions on 1 November 2026.
About this story
- Subject
- Typewriter
- Category
- Communication and Media Inventions
- Where
- Global
- When
- Ancient world to digital era
- Length
- 10 illustrated pages · about 15 minutes to read · about 11 minutes to listen
Who appears
- Christopher Latham Sholes — Inventor
- Clerk (Ink-Stained Fingers) — Representative of Manual Scribes
- Pellegrino Turri — 18th-Century Inventor
- Samuel Soule — Collaborator
- Carlos Glidden — Collaborator
- James Densmore — Financier and Investor
What happens on 1 November 2026
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