QWERTY

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Remington purchased a 1868 patent for the typewriter design. It was the first typewriter that allowed people to type faster than they could write. It was also the first to feature a QWERTY keyboard.

1878 QWERTY keyboard layout – U.S. Patent No. 207,559

The QWERTY layout was devised and created in the 1870s by Christopher Latham Sholes, a newspaper editor and printer who lived in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The letter groupings evolved from telegraph operators’ feedback. After Remington purchased the patent, they made a few adjustments that brings us our modern QWERTY layout.

Wyckoff, Seamans and Benedict advertisement for the Remington Model 1892
Remington Typewriter Company – New Models 10 and 11, 1909

Source book page: https://archive.org/stream/lincolncentenni00newy/lincolncentenni00newy#page/n234/mode/1up

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