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- QWERTY keyboard layout was a collaborative effort by Scholes, Solay, and Glidden in the 1860s.
- The Kauai oo bird faced extinction due to human activities like hunting, diseases, and invasive species introduction.
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The Development of the QWERTY Keyboard Layout
The QWERTY keyboard layout, commonly used today, was not invented by a single individual but by a collaborative effort. The layout was developed by Christopher Latham Scholes, Samuel Solay, and Carlos Glidden in the 1860s. Scholes, a politician in Wisconsin, initially aimed to create a machine that would print page numbers on books, eventually transitioning to a typewriter design.
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