How did the Qwerty keyboard layout appear, and why the letters are arranged in this way

When we think about the order of the letters, the alphabetical sequence most often comes to mind. But how did it happen that modern keyboards have a completely different layout? Why the letters are arranged in this sequence and who came up with it, the publication found out IChip.

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The history of the Qwerty layout goes back to 1868. It was then that the American journalist Christopher Latham Sholes patented his invention: he created a typewriter, the letters of which were organized in a special order.

The reason for this was banal convenience. The little hammers of the typewriter tended to cling to each other as they made their way to the ink-soaked tape. And this problem was solved when Scholes changed the arrangement of the letters.

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Based on a statistical study of frequent English letter combinations, he developed the Qwerty layout.

The first popular commercially produced typewriter was the Remington 1, which had a QWERTY layout with four rows of keys arranged in diagonal columns. For five long years, this machine remained the only one on the market, and buyers managed to get used to QWERTY.

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In countries that use German, this scheme has been slightly modified to look like Qwertz.

Whether it's an analog or a numeric keypad, this layout has proven itself very well, has stood the test of time and is still used everywhere.

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