Who was it that invented the typing keyboard and the configuration of the keys?
Christopher Sholes developed the QWERTY design, and it was finalized by Remington (E. Remington and Sons) for industrial production. 1) “No single person invented the typewriter. As with the automobile, telephone, and telegraph, a number of people contributed insights and inventions that eventually resulted in commercially successful instruments. In fact, historians have estimated that some form of typewriter was invented 52 times as tinkerers tried to come up with a workable design. In 1714, Henry Mill obtained a patent in Britain for a machine that, from the patent, appears to have been similar to a typewriter, but nothing further is known. Other early developers of typewriting machines include Pellegrino Turri, who also invented carbon paper. Many of these early machines, including Turri’s, were developed to enable the blind to write. In 1829, William Austin Burt patented a machine called the “Typowriter” which, in common with many other early machines, is listed as the “first typew
