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 of Bradwall two sons, Weyland Mere, Philip Arderne, and two daughters, Diana Frances and Mary Grace. Sarah Ormerod was born Sarah Latham in 1784 to Mary Mayer and John Latham (1761-1843). In 1784 John Latham had married Mary Mayer (born January 7, 1756), the daughter of Reverend Peter Mayer of St. Peter’s Church in Prestbury, Cheshire. Sarah Latham was their eldest daughter. She lived the first years of her life in Manchester where her father practiced medicine. At the age of three, she moved to Oxford where John Latham became a physician at the Radcliffe Infirmary. In 1788, the family moved to