In Britain in 1714, Henry Mill patented a machine that was very similar to what we know as a typewriter.
An Italian named Pellegrino Turri invented a typewriter sometime prior to 1808.
In 1829, an American named William Austin Burt patented a machine called the "Typowriter". He is usually called the Father of the typewriter.
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Typewriters were invented in 1867.
In 1829, William Austin Burt patented a machine called the "Typowriter" which, in common with many other early machines, is listed as the "first typewriter." The first typewriter to be commercially successful was invented in 1867 by C. Latham Sholes, Carlos Lidden and Samuel W. Soule in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, although Sholes soon disowned and even refuse to use the machine.