Giuseppe Ravizza Giuseppe Ravizza Giuseppe Ravizza, a prolific typewriter inventor, was born in Novara, Italy in 1811 (died 1885), and spent nearly 40 years of his life obsessively grappling with the complexities of inventing a usable writing machine. He called his invention "" because of its piano-type keys and keyboard. The story of the 16 models he produced between 1847 and the early 1880s is described in "The Writing Machine" and illustrated from Ravizza’s 1855 patent, which bears similarities to the later upstroke design of the Sholes and Glidden typewriter. In 1868, the American Christopher Latham Sholes (1819-1890) patented, on behalf of
Melissa Scholes Young currently teaches in the Department of Literature at American University in Washington, D.C. where she champions first-generation student issues. Melissa Scholes Young Melissa Scholes Young (born 1975) is an American writer. Melissa Scholes Young was born in Hannibal, Missouri. She graduated from Monmouth College with a BA in History, from Stetson University with an MA in Education, and from Southern Illinois University with an MFA in Creative Writing. She spent ten years teaching high school English and a few more teaching middle school at the American School in Brasilia, Brazil. Scholes Young is a Contributing Editor for "Fiction Writers Review"