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 and genealogical pursuits. Scholes died on 18 June 1890 and was buried in Tonge Cemetery in Bolton. Scholes's main publications were: Other writings included: Scholes made transcripts of the Bolton parish registers from 1587 to 1860, which were printed to 1712 in the "Bolton Weekly Journal", 1887–90. Attribution 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