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In 1878, Christopher Sholes was granted the patent on the QWERTY keyboard layout. He’d been granted the patent on the <a href="http://amzn.to/2pcTHOi" target="_blank">typewriter in 1868</a>, 10 years earlier. His original typewriter had problems with tangling mechanical keys and the QWERTY keyboard was his solution to broken keyboards and frustrated typists. The QWERTY keyboard favored left-handed typists (at a time when most technology favored right-handed users) and placed less commonly used letters under a typists resting fingers. Sholes, thinking very much like a founder who wanted to sell a lot of product, <a href="https://keyshorts.com/blogs/blog/41838657-31-weird-fun-facts-about-computer-keyboards-you-didnt-know-about" target="_blank">ensured the word TYPEWRITER was designed into the top row of the keyboard</a> ensuring salespeople could easily demo the product. That one decision played a big part in the makeup of the typewriter.