An early Remington typewriter featuring the QWERTY keyboard SSPL / Getty Images A few years after the iPhone’s debut, an innovative new keyboard system started making headlines. Known as KALQ ...

Just as Milwaukee is the birthplace of the typewriter, it's also the birthplace of the QWERTY keyboard, both of which are turning 150 years old.

So let’s jump right in and start by examining the forerunner of today’s plastic keyboard, the good old QWERTY typewriter layout. Who’d have thought the history of the ubiquitous QWERTY key ...

In half a year, the Qwerty keyboard will be 150 years old to the day. So the book kind of starts there. ... they weren’t as important as the first Qwerty typewriter.

The QWERTY keyboard has been around since the 1870s when newspaper editor Christopher Latham ... with the old layout, typewriters often jammed when people typed too fast because common letter ...

The QWERTY keyboard layout has been around since the 1870s and it's still the most common ... with the old layout, typewriters often jammed when people typed too fast because common letter ...

August Dvorak and William Dealey invented the layout in 1936 after studying the deficiencies of the QWERTY typewriter keyboard, which was already 60 years old at that point. Apple and Dvorak have ...

There are a million theories about why QWERTY was invented — the most common one holds that its creator wanted to make sure old typewriter mechanisms didn’t crash into each other as you ...

The fate of the keyboard was decided in 1893 when several of the largest typewriter manufacturers—including Remington—merged to form the Union Typewriter Company, which adopted QWERTY as the ...