Pretty interesting history, and a compelling theory. Although, I don't think we'll see the end of articles like these until someone digs up a direct reference.

Pretty interesting history, and a compelling theory. Although, I don't think we'll see the end of articles like these until someone digs up a direct reference. Here's a direct reference from 1875: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pdfs/US207559.pdf https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=patentimages.storage.goog... Amazing what's online these days. Unfortunately Sholes doesn't explain the origin of QWERTY in that patent. Does any? How about a copy of Scientific American at the time, or other publications, books, or journals that now may be scanned and online? The theory mentioned here is that QWERTY was influenced by telegraph and morse code. It's from this paper: http://kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~yasuoka/publications/PreQWERTY.html http://kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~yasuoka/publications/PreQ... I don't see a direct reference there either.