Sholes and Glidden typewriter goes on sale

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1 July, 1874

The Sholes and Glidden typewriter went on sale on the 1st of July 1874. It was the first commercially successful typewriter.
On 23rd of June 1868, Christopher Latham Sholes had received a patent for the invention.