The Sholes and Soul of Computing



On this very day in eighteen hundred sixty-eight

Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent great

It was for a new machine he'd designed and developed

Something he called - the typewriter ... which we all envelop



Every day we place our fingers on this keyboard

As we proceed to pound on it in our own accord

And so we must thank Christopher Latham Sholes

For creating the instrument, which'll never get old



- Tristram



© Christopher W. Thomas

1:30pm Wednesday, June 23rd, 1999



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