Christopher Latham Sholes
Christopher Latham Sholes was an American inventor born on February 14, 1819, and died on February 17, 1890. He is known for inventing the QWERTY keyboard. Along with Samuel W.
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Christopher Latham Sholes was an American inventor born on February 14, 1819, and died on February 17, 1890. He is known for inventing the QWERTY keyboard. Along with Samuel W.
William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist. He is widely seen as a key member of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced both underground and mainstream culture and literature. Much of his work is experimental and includes unreliable narrators.
Barthélemy Thimonnier was born on August 19, 1793, in L’Arbresle, Rhône, France. He died on July 5, 1857, in Amplepuis, France. Thimonnier was a French inventor who is credited with inventing the first sewing machine that mimicked the way people sew by hand.
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Joseph Farwell Glidden was born on January 18, 1813, and died on October 9, 1906. He was an American businessman and farmer who invented the modern barbed wire. In 1898, he gave land in DeKalb, Illinois, to help create the Northern Illinois State Normal School.
The Barbed Wire Patent Case, 143 U.S. 275, was an important legal case about patents in 1892. It involved Joseph Glidden, who sued the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) over the right to use barbed wire.
Christian Sharps (January 2, 1810 – March 12, 1874) was the inventor of the Sharps rifle, which was the first commercially successful breech-loading rifle. He also created the Sharps Four Barrel Pistol and the Sharps Breech-Loading Pistol.
Christopher Miner Spencer (June 20, 1833 – January 14, 1922) was an American inventor from Manchester, Connecticut. He created the Spencer repeating rifle, one of the first lever-action rifles, a steam-powered “horseless carriage,” and many other inventions. He also designed the first fully automatic turret lathe, a machine used to shape metal parts.
Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim (February 5, 1840 – November 24, 1916) was an American-born British inventor most famous for creating the first automatic machine gun, called the Maxim gun. He owned patents for many mechanical devices, including hair-curling irons, a mousetrap, and steam pumps. He said he invented the lightbulb.
Richard Jordan Gatling was born on September 12, 1818, and died on February 26, 1903. He was an American inventor who is most famous for creating the Gatling gun, which is recognized as the first successful machine gun ever made.