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Christopher Latham Sholes is given credit for inventing the first " practical " typewriter.

He was in fact the fifty-second person or possibly the 112th to reinvent a " type-writing " machine-which he called a type-writer.

Some of the " type-writing " machines invented between Burt's 1829 patented machine and Sholes ' 1867 type-writer are " The Projean Machine " ( 1833 ), " The Thurber Machine " ( 1843 ), " The Foucault Machine " ( 1843 ), " O. T. Eddy's machine " ( 1850 ), " The Fairbanks machine " ( 1850 ), " J. M. Jones ' machine " ( 1850 ), " William Hughes ' machine " ( 1851 ), John M. Jones " mechanical Typographer " ( 1852 ), " Thomas ' typograph " ( 1854 ), " The Beach typewriter " ( 1856 ), " The Francis Typewriter " ( 1857 ), " The Hansen Machine " ( 1865 ), " The Livermore Printing Device " ( 1863 ), " Peeler Writing Machine " ( 1866 ), and " The Sholes and Hidden Typewriter " ( 1867 ) invented by three men ( C. Latham Sholes, Samuel W. Soule, Carlos Glidden ).

Thomas Edison is even given credit for a version in 1872-that was electrified.