Charles Thurber
1803 - 1886
Charles Thurber was an American inventor. He is best known for having invented the first typewriter, for which he got a patent in 1843.
"United States Patent Office. Charles Thurber, Of Worcester, Massachusetts.," Today Insci, http://www.todayinsci.com/Events/Patent/Typewriter3228.htm (accessed 07/15/2015)
Terry Abraham , "Charles Thurber: Typewriter Inventor," Technology and Culture, Vol. 21, No. 3 (Jul., 1980), pp. 430-434, accessed via JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/3103156 (accessed 07/27/2015)