The typewriter was invented by Christopher Latham Sholes, along with Samuel W. Soule and Carlos Glidden. Sholes is credited with inventing the first practical typewriter and introducing the QWERTY keyboard layout, which is still used today. The first commercially successful typewriter, called the Sholes and Glidden typewriter or Remington No. 1, was developed by them and produced starting in 1873.
Other inventors contributed to the development of earlier typing instruments and typewriter prototypes, but Sholes and his collaborators created the first practical machine that became commercially viable.
