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TYPEWRITER INVENTION
A Wisconsin newspaper publisher in 1866 tried to automate ticket numbering. Then one question from a fellow inventor eventually helped create the typewriter and QWERTY keyboard we still use today- Independence Day 2026: Meet the ‘Edison of India’ who studied science from magazines and shocked the British with his inventions
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