The document summarizes the origins and development of the modern keyboard. It describes how early keyboards had letters arranged alphabetically, which caused jamming issues when common letter pairs were pressed. Amos Densmore and Christopher Sholes developed the QWERTY keyboard to separate common letters and avoid jamming. While the Remington No. 1 typewriter introduced mechanical writing, the Remington No. 2 established the modern keyboard layout of capital and lowercase letters. The document also proposes a specialized keyboard design with the most common letters on the home row to minimize finger movement.

1. Julianne Nelson

2.  The first keyboard was created with two rows in
alphabetic order.
 With that set up the most commonly used letters (TH)
and (ST) were close together so when the keys would
be pushed they would jam.
 Problems like this is how it all began.

3.  Amos Densmore and Christopher Latham Sholes
partner up to rearrange the letters on the keyboard.
 Their goal was to separate the more commonly used
letters to avoid the keyboard being jammed.

4.  The first QWERTY keyboard came about.
 Not very long and 1874 came along and keyboards
were being sold for ease of writing.

5.  Remington No. 1 was what the first typewriter was
called.
 The Idea of “Mechanical Writing” was not something
people were very sure about so it took a while before
people came around.
 It just took a new version Remington No. 2 to come
with the keyboard we use today and the ability to use
capital and lowercase letters.

6.  The keyboard I would create is for people who have a
hard time reaching all the keys with ease.
 Like Professor August Dvorak of Washington State
University did I would arrange the letters to make the
most commonly used letters on the home row so your
fingers don’t have to move as much.
 The home row would be AOEUIDHTNS being able to
type 400 words without not having to move your
fingers off the home row at all.

7.  http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/01/t
he-origin-of-the-qwerty-keyboard/