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  2. Christopher Latham Sholes - Wikipedia

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    Christopher Latham Sholes (February 14, 1819 – February 17, 1890) was an American inventor who invented the QWERTY keyboard, [2] and, along with Samuel W. Soule, Carlos Glidden and John Pratt, has been contended to be one of the inventors of the first typewriter in the United States. [3] [4] [5] He was also a newspaper publisher and Wisconsin ...

  3. QWERTY - Wikipedia

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    QWERTY (/ ˈ k w ɜːr t i / KWUR-tee) is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets. The name comes from the order of the first six keys on the top letter row of the keyboard: QWERTY. The QWERTY design is based on a layout included in the Sholes and Glidden typewriter sold via E. Remington and Sons from 1874. QWERTY became popular with the ...

  4. James Densmore - Wikipedia

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    James Densmore (February 3, 1820 – September 16, 1889) was an American businessman, inventor and vegetarian.He was a business associate of Christopher Sholes, who along with Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule helped contribute to inventing one of the first practical typewriters at a machine shop located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

  5. List of QWERTY keyboard language variants - Wikipedia

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    The Latvian QWERTY keyboard layout is most commonly used; its layout is the same as the United States one, but with a dead key, which allows entering special characters (āčēģīķļņōŗšūž). The most common dead key is the apostrophe ('), which is followed by Alt+Gr (Windows default for Latvian layout).

  6. Keyboard layout - Wikipedia

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    The 104-key US QWERTY layout. A keyboard layout is any specific physical, visual, or functional arrangement of the keys, legends, or key-meaning associations (respectively) of a computer keyboard, mobile phone, or other computer-controlled typographic keyboard.

  7. Typewriter - Wikipedia

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    The QWERTY layout is not the most efficient layout possible for the English language. Touch-typists are required to move their fingers between rows to type the most common letters. Although the QWERTY keyboard was the most commonly used layout in typewriters, a better, less strenuous keyboard was being searched for throughout the late 1900s. [118]

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  9. Carlos Glidden - Wikipedia

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    Carlos Glidden (November 8, 1834 – March 11, 1877), [1] along with Christopher Sholes, Frank Haven Hall, and Samuel W. Soule, invented the first practical typewriter at a machine shop [clarification needed] in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US. [2] [3] He kept on improving the typewriter until he died. [4] [5]