USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In a 2011 paper, the researchers tracked the evolution of the typewriter keyboard alongside a record of its early professional users. They conclude that the mechanics of the typewriter did not influence the keyboard design. Rather, the QWERTY system emerged as a result of how the first typewriters were being used.

Detailed explanation-2: -The QWERTY layout quickly became the standard for typewriters and has remained so for computers and other digital devices to this day.

Detailed explanation-3: -On February 14, 1819, American inventor Christopher Latham Sholes was born, who invented the first practical typewriter and is responsible for the QWERTY keyboard layout still in use today.

Detailed explanation-4: -The QWERTY keyboard layout, developed for typewriters in the 1870s, remains the standard for computer keyboards.

Detailed explanation-5: -Christopher Sholes invented the first practical typewriter and introduced the keyboard layout that is familiar today. As he experimented early on with different versions, Sholes realized that the levers in the type basket would jam when he arranged the keys in alphabetical order.