Computers and smartphones might be where most writing is done these days, but typewriters still have work to do in the US.

Designed by Christopher Sholes, who invented the typewriter, the QWERTY arrangement was organized to prevent people from typing too fast and jamming the mechanical keys. The QWERTY layout was ...

The QWERTY layout was created by Milwaukee, Wisconsin newspaper editor Christopher Latham Sholes, who began experimenting with various keyboard designs in the 1860s including a layout with only ...

The Sholes and Glidden typewriter introduced the QWERTY keyboard layout, a design so effective that it continues to be used today. This layout was devised to solve a mechanical issue, yet it will ...

It was a Milwaukeean, Christopher Latham Sholes, who invented the first commercially successful typewriter in 1868. He also ...

Why Such An Unusual Pattern? The qwerty keyboard was invented in the 1870s by one of the creators of the original typewriter, Christopher Latham Sholes. This first typewriter was patented in 1868 ...

In June, Floading took part in an event in Milwaukee called Qwertyfest – intended to celebrate both the typewriter and the Qwerty keyboard layout, in memory of Christopher Latham Sholes.