The QWERTY layout was created by Milwaukee, Wisconsin newspaper editor Christopher Latham Sholes, who began experimenting with various keyboard designs in the 1860s including a layout with only ...

It was a Milwaukeean, Christopher Latham Sholes, who invented the first commercially successful typewriter in 1868. He also ...

On 1 July, 1874, the world's first commercially successful typewriter, the "Sholes & Glidden Type Writer", went on sale. Christopher Latham Sholes and Carlos Glidden had started developing their ...