qwerty
142 years ago this week pennsylvania native christopher sholes had his patent approved for the first typewriter. his wasn’t the first, others can be traced back another 100 years, but it was the first commercially successful one adopted by many. to create the tool, sholes followed some key design principles to improve his product. he selected a target audience (stenographers) and made incremental improvements of the prototype until it met their needs. of his last improvements to the tool was the qwerty keyboard that we all still use today.
[photo courtesy of valeriana solaris, wikipedia]
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