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Patented: History of Inventions

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What Is QWERTY?

QWERTY was actually very intentional and very thoughtful. It wasn't just a random hutch bunch of letters. The combination of the letters was rearranged so that you didn't have to slow down. We should be calling keyboards button boards, because they're not keyboards. Like the keyboard is the musical keyboard. And so with a typewriter, a hammer hits a letter on a bit of ribbon, a bit of paper.

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