3712 West North Avenue,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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And commissioned this project.
And commissioned this project.
For this building I created a typewriter store from the 1950’s. I see the typewriter as an important icon of Milwaukee; since it’s modern form was invented here. Christopher Latham Sholes, served as an editor of the Milwaukee News and later the Milwaukee Sentinel. In 1864 Sholes collaborated with Samuel W. Soule and Carlos Glidden to create a letter-writing machine. This lead to the patent of the “typewriter” on June 23, 1868.
Still today we use the QWERTY keyboard that Sholes invented. It’s used in computers, cash machines, and other devices that use a keyboard.
