About Charles Spiro
Lived 1850 – 1933 (aged 82–83). Charles Spiro was an American inventor and lawyer.
Charles Spiro (January 1, 1850 – December 17, 1933) was an American inventor and an attorney who held 200 patents and patented Bar-Lock, Visigraph, Columbia and Columbia Music typewriters and helped develop the Gourland typewriter, among others. Spiro was born and died in New York City. He gave up his law profession after nine years and focused on refining his typewriters. He was also president of C. Spiro Manufacturing Company of Yonkers.
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Who was Charles Spiro?
American attorney and inventor
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Charles Spiro was born in 1850.
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Charles Spiro died on 17 December 1933.
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Charles Spiro was an inventor and lawyer.
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Charles Spiro was American.
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