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Christopher Latham Sholes

1819 - 1890

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Christopher Latham Sholes (February 14, 1819 – February 17, 1890) was an American inventor who invented the QWERTY keyboard, and, along with Samuel W. Soule, Carlos Glidden and John Pratt, has been contended to be one of the inventors of the first typewriter in the United States. He was also a newspaper publisher and Wisconsin politician. In his time, Sholes went by the names C. Latham Sholes, Latham Sholes, or C. L. Sholes, but never "Christopher Sholes" or "Christopher L. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christopher Latham Sholes has received more than 709,839 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Christopher Latham Sholes is the 156th most popular inventor (down from 133rd in 2019), the 2,227th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,756th in 2019) and the 37th most popular American Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Christopher Latham Sholes ranks 156 out of 354Before him are Fausto Veranzio, Hiram Maxim, Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse, Charles Algernon Parsons, Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, and Sequoyah. After him are Paul Baran, Joseph Monier, Uziel Gal, Charles Martin Hall, Guillaume Amontons, and Orban.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Christopher Latham Sholes ranks 35Before him are Théodore Chassériau, Roger Fenton, Annibale de Gasparis, Abner Doubleday, Milan Obrenović II, Prince of Serbia, and Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein. After him are Felice Orsini, Wilhelm Marr, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Alfred Escher, Estanislao Figueras, and Narcís Monturiol. Among people deceased in 1890, Christopher Latham Sholes ranks 25Before him are Princess Zorka of Montenegro, Gottfried Keller, Lorenz von Stein, Louis Le Prince, Carl Bloch, and Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters. After him are Vasile Alecsandri, Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, Ivan Mažuranić, Camilo Castelo Branco, and Alexander Georg von Bunge.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Christopher Latham Sholes ranks 2,227 out of 18,182Before him are Daryl Hannah (1960), Cloris Leachman (1926), David Soul (1943), Robert Plutchik (1927), Paul Bowles (1910), and Alicia Rhett (1915). After him are Clark Ashton Smith (1893), Robert Todd Lincoln (1843), Ivan Sutherland (1938), Ricky Nelson (1940), Richard Sennett (1943), and Chet Atkins (1924).

Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Christopher Latham Sholes ranks 37Before him are Robert Moog (1934), Josiah Warren (1798), Alfred Vail (1807), Mary Anderson (1862), Hiram Maxim (1840), and Sequoyah (1770). After him are Charles Martin Hall (1863), Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890), Melvil Dewey (1851), Garrett Morgan (1877), George Pullman (1831), and Royal Rife (1888).