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Keyboards
Patented: History of Inventions
The Keyboard and Touch Typing
The word key comes from music, right? It's not why we call keyboards keyboards, because it comes... At least that's the hypothesis. So at some point they realize two things. One is the piano keyboard is not as good, because you're not courting the letters. You just do one at a time. The second thing they realize is the arrangement can be better, because the alphabetical thing is not very helpful. But you can still see the... If you look at the middle row of your keyboard today, it's mostly alphabetical. They just move things around enough, so people could move faster. There are still traces of the alphabet there. And probably the reason why
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