![]() Then, almost out of the blue, QWERTY (almost) appeared. Sholes filed another patent in 1872 which shows the piano keyboard had been dropped in favour of rows of circular keys, but it did not specify which letter was where. It appears to have inspired them to change course and create “a machine by which … a man may print his thoughts twice as fast as he can write them.” In July 1867, he happened to read a short description of a “type-writing machine” in Scientific American. Sholes was joined by an inventor friend called Carlos Glidden. That was where a publisher called Christopher Latham Sholes began work on an invention he hoped would make him rich: a machine to automatically number the pages of books. The world’s love–hate relationship with the QWERTY keyboard began in a small workshop in Milwaukee in 1866. But behind the ordinariness and familiarity there’s something very odd about them. ![]() ![]() But none have origins quite like the word QWERTY.Īs one of the world’s most ubiquitous technologies, used by billions of people every day, we rarely give a second thought to computer keyboards. Technology often contributes new words to the English language: television, hoover and iPod to name a few. ![]()
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