Inventors Christopher Latham Sholes, Samuel W. Soulé…
March 1867 CE
Inventors Christopher Latham Sholes, Samuel W. Soulé and Carlos Glidden had written hundreds of letters on their typewriting machine to various people, among whom is James Densmore of Meadville, Pennsylvania.
Foreseeing that the typewriter would be highly profitable, he had offered to buy a share of the patent, without even having laid eyes on the machine.
The trio had immediately sold him one-fourth of the patent in return for his paying all their expenses so far.
When Densmore eventually examines the machine in March 1867, he declares that it is good for nothing in its current form, and urges them to start improving it.
Discouraged, Soule and Glidden depart the project, leaving Sholes and Densmore in sole possession of the patent.
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