Question

Who invented the QWERTY style/method of keyboard used for computers and also for typewritters?
1. Michael Bloomberg
2. Willian Singerely
3. Edward Rosewater
4. Christopher Latham Sholes

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 4 : Christopher Latham Sholes

The correct answer is Christopher Latham Sholes.

• The QWERTY style was invented in the early 1870s by a newspaper editor and printer Christopher Latham Sholes with the assistance of his friend Carlos Glidden.

• In October 1867, they applied for a patent for their early writing machine.
• In 1866, along with Samuel Soule, he successfully invented the numbering machine.
• The QWERTY style keyboards are the most useful keyboard layout across all geographic areas.

• Before this style was invented, keys were arranged in alphabetical order but people typed so fast that mechanical character arms got tangled hence the keys were randomly positioned to slow down typing for preventing key jams and later on this random arrangement became standard keyboard layout.