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, Illinois the village was $16,917. About 12.4% of families and 12.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 22.0% of those under age 18 and 7.4% of those age 65 or over. Latham, Illinois Latham is a village in Logan County, Illinois, United States. The population was 371 at the 2000 census. Latham was platted in 1871, and named in honor of Robert B. Latham, a railroad official. A post office called Latham has been in operation since 1872. Latham is located at (39.966928, -89.161968). According to the 2010 census, Latham has a total area of , all land.