James Densmore
| James Densmore | |
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| Born |
February 3, 1820[1] Moscow, New York, United States |
| Died |
September 16, 1889 (aged 69)[1] Brooklyn, New York, United States |
| Nationality | American |
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.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Johnson
- ↑ Invention of the Typewriter, Wisconsin Historical Marker, Retrieved May 11, 2008.
- ↑ Koichi and Motoko Yasuoka: On the Prehistory of QWERTY, ZINBUN, No.42 (March 2011), pp.161-174.
Bibliography
- Johnson, Rossiter, et al. (1904). The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. The Biographical Society
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