Where Did the QWERTY Keyboard Come From? From laptops to iPhones, the first successful typewriter’s keyboard layout lives on ...

This was probably the very first type of keyboard most of us ever used. The 100% (or full-size) layout consists of the full set of function keys, arrow keys, navigation cluster (Home cluster), and ...

In 1873, E. Remington and Sons — a New York company with a history of manufacturing guns, and then sewing machines — produced the first typewriter with a QWERTY keyboard.

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 ...