Christopher Sholes
Typewriter
Describing the inventor
Christopher sholes was a scruffy smart old man who worked as an apprentice with a printer as a teenager. When he was older he successfully invented the typewriter.
Describing the invention
First modern typewriter. Electric or manual machine the placed letters on papers one at a time with the push of a button
significance
The importance of the typewriter is that this was the start to modern writing tools. The invention is still used today in much of the modern world