Which inventor created the first commercially successful typewriter, patented in 1868?

Christopher Latham Sholes created the first commercially successful typewriter, patented in 1868.

Sholes was an American newspaper editor and inventor who worked with Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule on an early writing machine. Their patent, granted in 1868, described a keyboard machine that printed letters onto paper. Sholes continued refining the design and eventually worked with E. Remington and Sons to manufacture it.

The Remington No. 1, introduced in 1874, became the first commercially successful typewriter. It used a keyboard arrangement that developed into the modern QWERTY layout. The design was partly intended to reduce mechanical clashes between frequently used type bars, although the history of QWERTY is more complicated than the simple claim that it was created solely to slow typists.

Sholes did not invent every earlier writing machine. Typewriter-like devices had appeared before him, but his design helped establish a practical mass-market machine.