150 years ago an American inventor by the name of Christopher Latham Sholes

developed a machine to allow people to easily put text on a paper by pressing

mechanical keys. He called his invention the Type Writer.

After years of tinkering and adjusting, he finally came up with an arrangement of the keys that worked.

The letters on the left side of the top row were Q-W-E-R-T-Y.

We have basically been using the same keyboard ever since.

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The keyboards that most of us use is not The Quirtie keyboard was first

most of us use is known as the Quirtie keyboard, based on the letters on the

top left row. The Quirtie keyboard was first put into popular use with the

sale of the Remington Number 2 typewriter in 1878. However, the Ramington Number 2

wasn't the first typewriter. As I noted in the introduction, the modern typewriter

is accredited to Christopher Latham Sch Sholes, who is a printer and newspaper editor in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

The first version of the typewriter he created didn't use the Quarity layout which we have today.

His first typewriter had only two rows and the keys

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