Carlos Glidden (November 8, 1834 – March 11, 1877), along with Christopher Sholes,

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, and Samuel W. Soule, invented the first practical

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at a machine shop in

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, US. He kept on improving the typewriter until he died.U. S. Patents Nos. 200351 & 470784.

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