The History of the Typewriter

In 1868, Scholz designed a four-row keyboard in which the first row began A.I. Period question mark. By 1873, the four-row layout began QWE, period T.Y. That year, gun manufacturer Remington and Sons bought the rights to the Scholz and Glidden typewriter. Engineers at Remington moved the R to the top row of the typewriter giving us more or less the same QWE layout we have today.