Have you ever looked at a keyboard and wondered why the letters are randomly arranged, instead of being in alphabetical order? Well, the reason goes back about 150 years, when Christopher Sholes ...

If you’ve ever looked down at your keyboard and wondered why it’s not in alphabetical order, you’re not alone. But who came up with the current design, anyway? A few popular myths abound ...

When first invented , they had keys arranged in an alphabetical order, but people typed so fast ... down typing and prevent key jams. The QWERTY keyboards were made so one could type using keys ...

It’s named for the first six letters on the top row, leaving many to wonder why keyboards use this arrangement instead of alphabetical order. For the answer, e turn to Richard Polt of the Early ...

The QWERTY keyboard layout was invented in the 1870s by Christopher Latham Sholes to prevent typewriter keys from jamming. It remains the most widely used keyboard layout today. The letters on the ...

Have you ever looked down at your computer and wondered why we have QWERTY keyboards instead of alphabetical ones ... in the air and just decided the order they fell in was good enough.

Why not change the order in which we teach the alphabet to the QWERTY keyboard layout, Linda Phillips asks (Letters, 29 February). Well, not every language that uses the Latin alphabet uses that ...