The historical marker reads:
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THE TYPEWRITER
At 318 State Street,
approximately 300 feet
northeast of here, C.
Latham Sholes perfected
the first practical type-
writer in September, 1869.
Here he worked during the
summer with Carlos Glidden,
Samuel W. Soule, & Matthias
Schwalbach in the machine
shop of C.F. Kleinsteuber.
During the next six years,
money for the further
development of the type-
writer was advanced by
James Densmore, who later
gained the controlling
interest and sold it to E.
Remington & Sons of Ilion,
N.Y.