People strolling in Omaha’s historic ... so that was always a nice connection for us — as was his old typewriter. My siblings and I used to type our term papers on it. Our mother once stayed ...

On 1 July, 1874, the world's first commercially successful typewriter, the "Sholes & Glidden Type Writer", went on sale. Christopher Latham Sholes and Carlos Glidden had started developing their ...