
Typewriters: Mechanical Brilliance
Stuff You Should Know
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The QWERTY Keyboard
QWERTY is named after those first six letters on the top row of the typewriter. Scholes originally had it alphabetized and that's true but some researchers think actually it was Morse code operators whose input led to the QWERTY keyboard from Scholes. If you if you're transcribing Morse code QWERTY layout makes a lot of sense oh really do you know how I don't?
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