James Densmore

James Densmore was a business associate of Christopher Sholes, who along with Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule helped contribute to inventing one of the first practical typewriters at a machine shop located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.^[2]

It was believed that Densmore had suggested splitting up commonly used letter combinations in order to solve a jamming problem, but called in question.^[3] This concept was later refined by Sholes and became known as the QWERTY key layout.

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Bibliography

• Johnson, Rossiter, et al. (1904). The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. The Biographical Society