Multiple choice

Who invented the typewriter?

  1. C.L. Sholes

  2. Samuel Colt

  3. J.B.Dunlop

  4. Charles Babbage
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Explanation

Christopher Latham Sholes is credited with inventing the first commercially successful typewriter in 1868. Samuel Colt is known for the revolver, J.B. Dunlop for the pneumatic tire, and Charles Babbage for the mechanical computer.

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