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'Sholes' Type Writer', 1872. A woman using a typewriter by the American inventor Christopher Latham Sholes (1819-1890). A forerunner of the 20th century machine, the keys had a piano action and the carriage moved one space to the left for each character struck The keyboard had a Qwerty layout. Sholes sold out to Remington in 1874. From Scientific American. (New York, 1872).