The QWERTY layout is attributed to an American inventor named Christopher Latham Sholes, and it made its debut in its earliest form on July 1, 1874 -- 142 years ago today.

There is absolutely no correlation between similar American Morse codes and positions on the QWERTY keyboard. They’re all over the place. Even if you look at the most easily confused combinations: ...

The QWERTY keyboard layout has existed for more than 100 years. In the age of smart phones and tablets, is it time for a redesign? We look at QWERTY's origins and a new design called KALQ.

The QWERTY Keyboard Will Never Die. Where Did the 150-Year-Old Design Come From? The invention’s true origin story has long been the subject of debate.

You know you have a QWERTY keyboard if you see the first letters on the top-left corner row ordered as Q, W, E, R, T, and Y. This type of layout is designed to speed up typing, as it evens out the ...

In August 1872 Scientific American published a glowing article about the “‘Sholes’ Type Writer”, illustrated with an engraving of the machine showing a four-row keyboard with a second row ...

The real history of the modern (QWERTY) keyboard begins in 1867, when American newspaper editor and printer Christopher Sholes built the first actual Type-Writer – in fact, that was the patented ...

Researchers have discovered that words typed on the right side of a QWERTY keyboard, for example POOL, tend to be thought of as more positive than those typed on the left side, say DESERT. The ...

The BlackBerry QWERTY keyboards are easy to use, and fast typing is a breeze. So it’s no surprise that Apple considered putting one on the first iPhone, right? Except it really doesn’t seem ...