James Densmore

James Densmore

Born	(1820-02-03)February 3, 1820^[1] Moscow, New York, United States
Died	September 16, 1889(1889-09-16) (aged 69)^[1] Brooklyn, New York, United States
Nationality	American

James Densmore was a business associate of Christopher Sholes, who along with Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule helped contribute to inventing one of the first practical typewriters at a machine shop located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.^[2]

It was believed that Densmore had suggested splitting up commonly used letter combinations in order to solve a jamming problem, but called in question.^[3] This concept was later refined by Sholes and became known as the QWERTY key layout.

Notes

1 2 Johnson
↑ Invention of the Typewriter, Wisconsin Historical Marker, Retrieved May 11, 2008.
↑ Koichi and Motoko Yasuoka: On the Prehistory of QWERTY, ZINBUN, No.42 (March 2011), pp.161-174.

Bibliography

Johnson, Rossiter, et al. (1904). The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. The Biographical Society

Typewriters

Manufacturers	Brother Commodore International E. Remington and Sons IBM Imperial Typewriter Company Oliver Typewriter Company Olivetti Royal Typewriter Company Sharp Smith Corona Underwood Typewriter Company Xerox

Models	Blickensderfer typewriter Data Recall Diamond Hammond Typewriter Hansen Writing Ball IBM Selectric typewriter Sholes and Glidden typewriter

Prominent figures	Lucien Stephen Crandall Frank Haven Hall James Densmore Carlos Glidden Rasmus Malling-Hansen Henry Mill Clarence Seamans Christopher Sholes James Fields Smathers Lyman Cornelius Smith Samuel W. Soule Kyota Sugimoto

Components	Platen QWERTY Typebar

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