Christopher Latham Sholes(1819-1890). Sholes was a U.S. mechanical engineer who invented the first practical modern typewriter, patented in 1868. Sholes invented the typewriter with partners S. W. Soule and G. Glidden, that was manufactured (by Remington Arms Company) in 1873.he first practical typewriter was conceived by three American inventors and friends in 1867: Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samual W. Soule. The First American Typewriter Patent. The first American patent for a typewriter was granted in 1829 to William Austin Burt from Detroit.