James Densmore was the financier who provided the money to develop the typewriter. Christopher Sholes designed the original keyboard layout. Densmore sold the machine to Remington Corp., and their engineers tinkered with the design a bit more.
And the key layout was purposely designed to slow down the typist. The most used letters are in the left hand and out of “home” position. If typists went too fast, the typewriter typebars (the “arms” that had the characters on the end that hit the ribbon and printed onto the paper) would clog up and then the typist would have to stop typing and untangle the typebars before he/she could continue typing.
runar about 16 years ago
James Densmore was the financier who provided the money to develop the typewriter. Christopher Sholes designed the original keyboard layout. Densmore sold the machine to Remington Corp., and their engineers tinkered with the design a bit more.
normfrowe almost 16 years ago
And the key layout was purposely designed to slow down the typist. The most used letters are in the left hand and out of “home” position. If typists went too fast, the typewriter typebars (the “arms” that had the characters on the end that hit the ribbon and printed onto the paper) would clog up and then the typist would have to stop typing and untangle the typebars before he/she could continue typing.