Most typists trained on it. Any employer investing in a costly typewriter would naturally choose the layout that most typists could use, especially when economies of scale made it the cheapest ...

The standard typewriter keyboard layout used throughout the world. Q, W, E, R, T and Y are the letter keys starting at the top left, alphabetic row. Designed by Christopher Sholes, who invented ...

Have you ever wondered why the letters on your computer or laptop keyboard are placed in such a random manner? Why do we get ...

The QWERTY layout was created by Milwaukee, Wisconsin newspaper editor Christopher Latham Sholes, who began experimenting with various keyboard designs in the 1860s including a layout with only ...

It all started in 1868 when the first successful typewriter launched with the QWERTY layout. The keyboard has always been used as a means of input for a PC. Whether you believe the Kenbak-1 or IBM ...