QWERTY keyboard

The term Qwerty Keyboard was first used in a 1978 article by the New York Times called “Qwerty and Beyond” by John Culkin. The article talks about a man named Christopher Latham Sholes who first created the QWERTY keyboard as a revolutionary keyboard for the typewriter.  The reason he did this is because he noticed that with the current (of that time period) alphabetical order of the keys that a lot of the keys would jam when two successive keys were punched in rapid order. So he decided to rearrange the keyboard to move the successive keys away from one another and prevent jamming. This design caught on very quickly and Mr. Sholes is now credited with being the 52^nd man to invent the typewriter.

QWERTY keyboard was first used in a scholarly journal in 1980. The publication Phi Delta Kappan published an article called Dvorak vs. Qwerty. This article talked about whether or not the new QWERTY type keyboard would catch on with the public, or if the original one created by Dvorak would continue to keep the public’s interest. As we all know the QWERTY keyboard one out the competition and it is still used today.

The QWERTY keyboard is used today to describe the layout of the keyboard on any computer, laptop, tablet, or cell phone. We as humans use QWERTY keyboards multiple times per day to communicate with one another. Some examples include: sending a text message, writing a paper (like this one), sending an email, using the internet, all of this items require the use of the QWERTY keyboard. I believe that the QWERTY keyboard is one of the inventions that does not receive the credit it should because it is probably one of the most used items in our lives.