Today this blog won't be about dance. It will be about the modern day keyboard known as QWERTY. Christopher Latham Sholes invented the first QWERTY keyboard. Christopher was born on February 14,1819 in Mooresburg, Pennsylvania. He was a newspaper publisher and a Wisconsin politician. He died February 17, 1890 in Milwuakee, Wisconsin. Why is the QWERTY keyboard set up the way it is? It is like that because when a key was struck, a linkage would swing the bar into tape coated with ink. When the character struck the tape, the impression of the character was transferred on to paper. Sholes' original prototype had a problem with the bars colliding with each other and jamming. So, he arranged the keys with the most common letters in hard to reach spots, to slow typists down and try to avoid this problem. That is all for this blog. Bye!
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