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.