But Sholes' real interest was inventing new and useful items. He moved to Milwaukee and spent some time as editor of the Milwaukee News and later the Milwaukee Sentinel. When Abraham Lincoln offered him the position as a collector for the Port of Milwaukee and he accepted. he knew this would mean working fewer hours and he would have more time to work on his inventions.
Latham Sholes and fellow inventor Samuel W. Soule developed a machine that numbered pages in a book and they got a patent for it in 1864. Another man, Carlos Glidden, an attorney, suggested that they might be able to make their machine also produce letters and words as well.
In 1867, Sholes ran across an article about a machine called the Pterotype which was a prototype of te typewriter which had been invented by John Pratt. Sholes decided that the machine was too complex to work well so set about creating his own version.
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