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
James Christopher Scholes James Christopher Scholes James Christopher Scholes (1852–1890) was an English antiquary. The son of James Scholes, a printer and bookbinder, James Christopher Scholes was born at Bolton, Lancashire, on 27 March 1852, and educated at the Holy Trinity School there. Scholes trained as a printer then worked a reporter on a local newspaper, and later became a draper. He served as a member of the Bolton Board of Guardians of the Poor, and as a member of the Bolton School Board. In 1877, Scholes married Ann Frost, who became his business manager. Scholes then devoted his time to his antiquarian