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
Latham, Kansas High School mascot was Crusaders. Latham, Kansas Latham is a city in Butler County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 139. Latham was laid out in 1885. It may have been named for Latham Young, a railroad official. A post office was opened in Bodock (an extinct town) in 1883, but it was moved to Latham in 1885. The first newspaper in Latham was founded in 1901. Latham is located at (37.535363, -96.641781). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land. As of