Invention of the Typewriter historical marker

This historical marker was placed here in 1956 to mark the invention of the first "practical" typewriter in 1869. After a few more years of redesigning the invention, it would be mass-produced for sale beginning in 1873.

The historical marker reads:

INVENTION OF
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.