QWERTY keyboard
The standard English language typewriter keyboard. Q, W, E, R, T and Y are the letters on the top left, alphabetic row. Designed by Christopher Sholes, who invented the typewriter, the keyboard layout was organized to prevent people from typing too fast and jamming the keys. The QWERTY layout was included in the drawing for Sholes' patent application in 1878. See Dvorak keyboard, AZERTY keyboard and typewriter.
QWERTY LAYOUT
Q W E R T Y U I O P
A S D F G H J K L ; ' Home Row
Z X C V B N M , . /
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| This Hammond Multiplex typewriter, which used a QWERTY keyboard, was offered in 1913 with two fonts that could be quickly switched. (Equipment courtesy of Dorothy Hearn.) |
qwerty keyboard [′kwərd·ē kē‚bȯrd]
(engineering)
A keyboard containing the standard arrangement of letters so named after the first letters on the top alphabetic row.
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