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CHRISTOPHER LATHAM SHOLES
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 todayThe year 1866 marked a pivotal moment in communication history with Christopher Sholes' invention of the QWERTY keyboard layout. This groun...- The QWERTY keyboard layout may have been designed partly to slow typists down before typewriters jammed themselves apartTypewriters of the past often struggled with jamming, a problem that sparked innovation. Christopher Latham Sholes stepped in with the revo...
- QWERTY: the keyboard that was designed to slow you downThat Q-W-E-R-T-Y combo at the top left? It wasn’t random. “Typewriter” can be spelled using just the top row—a cheeky marketing trick for t...
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