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When typewriters were first invented there was no standard arrangement of the letters on the keys. One serious issue was that because typewriters use a long mechanical arm for each letter that rises up and hits the ribbon to print a letter on paper, it was possible for these arms to clash and jam when the user was typing fast. The current keyboard layout which has QWERTY as the first 6 keys at the top left was designed in 1873 by Christopher Latham Sholes of Milwaukee in 1873, and was intended to minimise jamming. He sold the design to Remington who made some refinements, but basically the modern QWERTY keyboard layout is Sholes' design. Apart from preventing jamming of the mechanism, the layout of the letters is also designed so that a user can achieve maximum tying speed. Not everyone uses the QWERTY layout; French keyboards use the AZERTY layout where all three lines of letters are slightly different. Another famous keyboard layout is the Dvorak keyboard (do a web search to find illustrations).
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