who invented the keyboard?

Question

why did they mix all the letters up? why not in abc order and all the symbols in order? dose anyone else wonder the same stupid stuff?

Answer 1

The letters are mixed up in order to slow down the typist. Manual typewriters would jam if you typed too fast. It was made to be inefficient.

For an efficient keyboard, look up dvorak. Wikipedia prolly has a good article.

As for who invented it, they sorta evolved in the mid-1800s, iirc.

Answer 2

Sholes & Glidden 1874 made the first typewritter with a QWERTY keyboard. Prior to that Rev. Rasmus Malling-Hansen of Denmark in 1865 invented a typing machine with keys mounted on a semi sphere, like the top half of a globe, with the most popular keys positioned for the fastest typing finger strikes. He also used solinoids to make this an electric typewriter. The Sholes & Glidden design, however, was employed by Remington to make their first typewriter. It's unclear if the Underwood machine used the same keyboard design or not, but they came out with a machine a year or two prior to this. The basis if the QWERTY concept is that a fast typist will have a very low probability of "jamming" keys using this design, because it spaces common vowels on different sides and different rows, then it places other keys on different side and different rows based on frequcy of usage. Remember a manual typewriter used the keys to push a lever which made the type font strike the page. The idea was to pace the typist naturally by forcing them to use left then right, center then top then bottom for almost every word written. Since so many people, like me, were trained on QWERTY since the 1960s they kept the same style for computers, even though jamming is a moot point. Other keyboard designs include the ABCDE and Divorak. No one find the Divorak easy to use, while non-typists find ABCDE rather easy. Once you learn touch typing it becomes first nature. However looking at, for example, a touch screen QWERTY keyboard is even difficult for me and I'd probably have an easer time on a touch screen using ABCDE format.

Answer 3

The letters on the keyboard were originally arranged to make it quicker to type the most common letters used in the English language.
Research has discovered a better layout, but much like the metric system, it hasn't caught on, because people are used to the way it is now.
The guy who laid it out originally was C.L. Sholes of Milwaukee, in the 1860s.

Answer 4

This depends on Qwerty keyboard or Davorak keyboard.
qwerty keyboards have Qwerty as the top letters in the left half.
Qwerty is the standard Typewriter I beleave, whereas Davorak keyboard is more about placing letters in a better spot so its easier to type, and more comfy

Answer 5

Since many letters are used much more often those letters are easier to reach and typing speeds are faster. For example, "T" and "E" are very frequently used and are easily reached. Z, on the other hand is rarely used, and the left pinky has to go down for it. Mavis Beacon teaches typing is a good class to learn to use the keyboard.

Answer 6

The official name of the keyboard is "Qwerty". The keyboard is named after the top row of letters on the keyboard. If you don't think so just look on your keyboard.

The first keyboard was first invented in 1864.

Answer 7

C.L. Sholes

http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/whyqwert.html

Answer 8

It was first ordered by in accd... but it was later changed so the letters that are often together in words are also together in the keyboard and it's easier to write.

The Computer keyboard is based of the typewritter keayboard

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter_keyboard

Answer 9

I really do not know, try using Google?

I know that the mouse was created by Apple..

Answer 10

John Key - because he was bored??