The typewriter was invented by Christopher Latham Sholes, an American inventor. He developed the first practical and commercially successful typewriter in the 1860s. Sholes is also credited with designing the QWERTY keyboard layout, which remains in use today. His typewriter was patented in 1868 along with collaborators Frank Haven Hall, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel W. Soule, and was later produced commercially by E. Remington and Sons in 1873.