First Typewriter using: QWERTY 
1872 1878 1932 2050
*1872
Christopher Latham Sholes set out to develop a machine that could number book pages automatically. The idea was soon extended to the idea of a machine that could print the alphabet. An article in the "Scientific American" sent "Typewriting" jetting into the future. The first typewriter containing QWERTY- the keyboard design still used today, was put on the market in 1874 . The original design excluded the number one since the "l" could be substituted easily and the shift keys(named because the key actually shifted the carriage) because the letters were all uppercase. Sholes' first model typewriter had rows arranged alphabetically. This arrangement proved to be inefficient. The location of the keys and the use of some letters over others caused the machine to jam easily. When Sholes rearranged the letters using QWERTY(top six letters on the left top corner) people accused him of trying to slow typists down to prevent frequent jamming. His goal, however, was to strategically place the letters used frequently at safe distances to keep the typebars from interlocking.
