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History

History of Typewriter:

Sholes was a U.S. mechanical engineer who invented the first practical modern typewriter, patented in 1868. Sholes invented the typewriter with partners S. W. Soule and G. Glidden, that was manufactured (by Remington Arms Company) in 1873 

History of Keyboard:

Perhaps the most attention paid to the keyboard as a human interface was by IBM in 1984, and was in regard to the compatibility of the layout of the Personal Computer that it had just developed with the layout of the Selectric™ typewriter. The Personal Computer had no jamming problems and its keyboard could handle even the fastest typist. Therefore the issue of separating the keys did not pose itself.

Moreover, no attention seems to have been paid by IBM to the fact that the newly developed Personal Computer was going to be used primarily by people with little or no typing skills and to whom therefore the issue of the "QWERTY legacy" was unimportant.

Because of this, IBM could have redesigned the layout of the Personal Computer keyboard to a more ergonomic and user friendly layout. Unfortunately, IBM missed this wonderful opportunity and so it is that a keyboard layout designed over a century ago, for a different technological situation, is in use on over 500 million computers today