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On this day in 1878, Wisconsinite Christopher Latham Sholes patented the typewriter.

The idea for this invention began at Kleinsteuber's Machine Shop in Milwaukee in the late 1860s. A mechanical engineer by training, Sholes, along with associates Carlos Glidden and Samuel Soulé, spent hours tinkering with the idea.

They mounted the key of an old telegraph instrument on a base and tapped down on it to hit carbon & paper against a glass plate. This idea was simple, but in 1868 the mere idea that type striking against paper might produce an image was a novelty.

Sholes proceeded to construct a machine to reproduce the entire alphabet. The prototype was sent to Washington as the required Patent Model. This original model still exists at the Smithsonian. Investor James Densmore provided the marketing impetus which eventually brought the machine to the Re*****on Arms Company.

Although Re*****on mass-marketed his typewriter beginning in 1874, it was not an instant success. A few years later, improvements made by Re*****on engineers gave the machine its market appeal and sales skyrocketed.

📸: Christopher Latham Sholes: WHI ID # 33920

“A day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.” — Nicholas Sparks

How about happy Sunset Sunday? Is that a thing? It should be… 🌞

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For National Physician’s Week, we’re honoring one of the first female doctors in Wisconsin, Dr. Jane M. Wilson.

Wilson was born in Vermont as Jane Margaret Ingalls in 1821. She spent her early life in New England, married twice, and had three children: Henry Blake, John Blake, and Mary Wilson. In her early thirties, Wilson began courses at the Women’s Medical College in Boston. She graduated in 1854 and the family moved west to Madison, Wisconsin.

The Civil War soon arrived, and Wilson was placed in an unusual position. Her younger son, Henry, volunteered to join the Union Army. Her eldest son, John, settled in South Carolina and chose to serve with the Confederates. Both survived the war.

Wilson went on to practice medicine in Madison for over 30 years, well into her 60s. During that time, she became an active supporter of the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization for Union war veterans. When this photo was taken, Wilson was the last surviving Civil War mother in Madison. She lived to the age of 99.

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