QWERTY: How Wisconsin Holds the Keys to Typing History | The Look Back

What role did Milwaukee residents play in developing the QWERTY keyboard, one of the most widely used inventions of the modern age?

Christopher Latham Sholes didn’t invent the typewriter, but he did play a major role in shaping its modern form—most notably the development of the QWERTY keyboard. Around 1867, Sholes and his colleagues in a Milwaukee makerspace began working on designs that would ultimately become the Type-Writer. This model was produced by Remington & Sons in New York starting in 1873, and it changed the course of typewriter (and keyboard) history forever.

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