Why Keyboards Aren't In Alphabetical Order
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 Published On Nov 23, 2023

Have you ever looked at a keyboard and wondered why the letters are randomly arranged, instead of being in alphabetical order?

Well, the reason goes back about 150 years, when Christopher Sholes and Carlos Glidden a created a revolutionary device to type out letters, which was faster and cleaner than using a quill. It was called the typewriter, and its mechanisms worked similarly to a piano.

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