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
Katherine Scholes translated into numerous languages. Katherine also works in the film industry. She currently lives in Tasmania with her filmmaker husband Roger Scholes and their two sons. Katherine Scholes Katherine Anne Scholes (born 5 July 1959) is an Australian writer. She was born in the Dodoma Region of Tanzania where her parents were English missionaries, and spent most of her childhood there before moving to England and then Tasmania. Scholes is the author of the international bestsellers "Make Me An Idol", "The Rain Queen" and "The Stone Angel". She has also written several children's books including the acclaimed "Peacetimes", "The Boy