Who invented the typewriter and when?

The typewriter was invented by Christopher Latham Sholes, an American inventor, in 1868. Sholes, along with his colleagues Samuel Soule and Carlos Glidden, developed the first practical typewriter, which was later sold as the Sholes and Glidden typewriter. This early version was the first to use the QWERTY keyboard layout, which is still in use today. The invention of the typewriter revolutionized the way people wrote, making document production faster and more efficient, and it played a key role in the development of business offices and administrative tasks.