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The basics
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Intro
American inventor
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Male
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Birth:
3 February 1820(Leicester (village), New York, Livingston County, New York, U.S.A.)
Death:
16 September 1889(Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S.A.)
The details
Biography
James Densmore was a business associate of Christopher Sholes, who along with Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule helped contribute to inventing one of the first practical typewriters at a machine shop located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
It was believed that Densmore had suggested splitting up commonly used letter combinations in order to solve a jamming problem, but called in question. This concept was later refined by Sholes and became known as the QWERTY key layout.