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Feb 03, 1820 Leicester, New York, United States Died on 16 Sep 1889 (aged 69)
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About James Densmore
- James Densmore (February 3, 1820 - September 16, 1889) was an American businessman, inventor and vegetarian.
- He was a business associate of Christopher Sholes, who along with Carlos Glidden and Samuel W.
- Soule helped contribute to inventing one of the first practical typewriters at a machine shop located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.It was believed that Densmore had suggested splitting up commonly used letter combinations in order to solve a jamming problem, but called in question.
- This concept was later refined by Sholes and became known as the QWERTY key layout. Densmore was a militant vegetarian.
- His diet consisted of mostly raw apples.
- His brother was physician Emmet Densmore.
