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, Cleckheaton Scholes, Cleckheaton Scholes is a village near Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, England. The village is south of Bradford between Wyke and Cleckheaton near to the M62 motorway. The village was originally known as ""Scales"" and was a hamlet in the township of Cleckheaton. In the 18th century the most prominent industry in the village was ""card making"" (combing cotton or linen.). Later on a Coal mine opened in the area but that closed early in the 20th century. There are two other villages and a hamlet in West Yorkshire known as "Scholes". One village is near Holmfirth, the other is near