Designed by Christopher Sholes, who invented the typewriter, the QWERTY arrangement was organized to prevent people from typing too fast and jamming the mechanical keys. The QWERTY layout was ...

Sholes and Glidden gussied up an early model with floral ornaments, in imitation of sewing machines. Alamy In 1866, Christopher Latham Sholes, a Wisconsin newspaper publisher and former state ...

Why Such An Unusual Pattern? The qwerty keyboard was invented in the 1870s by one of the creators of the original typewriter, Christopher Latham Sholes. This first typewriter was patented in 1868 ...