The standard typewriter keyboard layout used throughout the world. Q, W, E, R, T and Y are the letter keys starting at the top left, alphabetic row. Designed by Christopher Sholes, who invented ...

Since Remington was the leading typewriter manufacturer of that time, the QWERTY layout gradually became the new standard. When the computer keyboard was invented later, this design was adopted ...

Sholes and Glidden’s first prototype had a semi-sequential keyboard layout, with all letters uppercase ... “You want to make sure [it’s] of standard make,” she responded.