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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. James Sargent - Wikipedia

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    In 1857 Sargent had designed the "Sargent's Magnetic Bank Lock", said to be the first successful key changeable combination lock. In 1880 Sargent connected one of his combination locks to a delay timer, creating the first time-delay combination locks.

  4. Musical keyboard - Wikipedia

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    Because these keys receive less wear, they are often made of black colored wood and called the black notes or black keys. Black keys form a pentatonic scale. The entire pattern repeats at the interval of an octave. The arrangement of longer keys for C major with intervening, shorter keys for the intermediate semitones date to the 15th century.

  5. History of home keyboards - Wikipedia

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    In 1915 he invented the first vacuum tube instrument, the audio piano. Until the invention of the transistor , the vacuum tube was an essential component in electric instruments. In 1935, the Hammond organ was introduced, [ 7 ] exploiting previous limited production efforts like the Robb Wave Organ [ 8 ] from 1923.

  6. Timeline of historic inventions - Wikipedia

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    1911: The cloud chamber, the first particle detector, is invented by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson. 1912: The first commercial slot cars or more accurately model electric racing cars operating under constant power were made by Lionel (USA) and appeared in their catalogues in 1912. 1912: The first use of articulated trams by Boston Elevated Railway.

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  8. Computer keyboard - Wikipedia

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    The key switches are connected via the printed circuit board in an electrical X-Y matrix where a voltage is provided sequentially to the Y lines and, when a key is depressed, detected sequentially by scanning the X lines. The first computer keyboards were for mainframe computer data terminals and used discrete electronic parts.

  9. A look back: Key moments from the first months of COVID-19 - AOL

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    In the time warp that COVID-19 created in most of our lives, it's hard to believe it's been five years since any of us first heard of a mysterious illness making people sick in China. But it was ...