| Christopher Sholes patented the typewriter in 1868, his invention relying on the understroke mechanism that drove a bar up onto an inked ribbon when each key was pressed. |
| The river obliges the men to undergo great fatigue and labour in hauling the Canoes over the Sholes in the Cold water naked. |
| In 1868 Sholes invented what is usually considered the first practical typewriting machine. |
| Sholes died in 1890, having also helped by many minor devices the increase in the use of writing-machines. |
