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
Scholes, Holme Valley presenter of the long-running BBC show "Record Breakers". Scholes has a successful cricket team in the Drakes Huddersfield League and teams in the Huddersfield & District FA competition. Scholes, Holme Valley Scholes is a Pennine hilltop village, situated 1 mile (2 km) to the southeast and above Holmfirth, 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Huddersfield, in the Holme Valley of West Yorkshire, England. It has a population of 1,990. The name "Scholes" may have originated from the Scandinavian language meaning 'the temporary huts or sheds'. The village contains one non denominational primary school, originally built in 1908, modernised in 1976