The first American paten for what might be called a typewriter was granted to William Austin Burt, of Detroit, in 1829. However, the breakthrough came in 1867 when Christopher Latham Sholes of Milwaukee with the assistance of his friends Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule invented their first typewriter.
The guy I was replying to … thought the document example typed out in 1917 was before typewriters were invented. They weren't ….SO BACK OFF!