Inventor (14-Feb-1819 — 17-Feb-1890)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Arthur Toye Foulke. Mr. Typewriter: A Biography of Christopher Latham Sholes. Boston: Christopher Publishing House. 1961. 134pp.

Frank J. Romano. Machine Writing and Typesetting: The Story of Sholes and Mergenthaler and the Invention of the Typewriter and the Linotype. Salem, NH: Gamma Press. 1986. 122pp.

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5. Webster's American Biographies (p.946)

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