Q, W, E, R, T and Y are the letter keys starting at the top left, alphabetic row. Designed by Christopher Sholes, who invented the typewriter, the QWERTY arrangement was organized to prevent ...

When people typed fast, the keys of the typewriter often collided with each other and the machine got stuck. To solve this problem, Sholes and his colleagues invented the QWERTY keyboard.

Each of the 1,000 keys represents one of the most common English ... keyboard layouts aren't evolving beyond the tried-and-true QWERTY anytime soon. Yet, despite the absurdity of the Ten Hundred ...

By April 1870, his keyboard resembled the modern QWERTY layout with four rows of keys and when Sholes' design was sold to Remington in 1873, it looked like this (on the right is today's layout ...