Charles Thurber was an inventor who made important innovations in the early development of the typewriter

Typewriter

A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical device with keys that, when pressed, cause characters to be printed on a medium, usually paper. Typically one character is printed per keypress, and the machine prints the characters by making ink impressions of type elements similar to the pieces...

. According to the book The Marvels of Modern Mechanism published in 1901, Charles invented and patented in 1843 the first practical typewriter, though it admits his machine was slow, crude and was never manufactured.

Career

He received multiple patent

Patent

A patent is a form of intellectual property. It consists of a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for the public disclosure of an invention....

s, the first in 1843 for an aid to the blind and in 1845 he patented his Chirographer

Chirographer

A chirographer can refer to*Someone who studies chirography*a machine patented in 1842 by Charles Thurber which was an early form of typewriter....