I believe the article contains a factual error about the qwerty keyboard not existing until Remington had bought the patent. The earliest commercial Sholes and

I believe the article contains a factual error about the qwerty keyboard not existing until Remington had bought the patent. The earliest commercial Sholes and Glidden Type-Writer (one that you could actually buy) had a qwerty keyboard [1]. It has been said that Sholes used this arrangement because one can type the word "typewriter" without leaving the top row; I.e. for salesman demonstration purposes. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholes_and_Glidden_typewriter https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholes_and_Glidden_typewrite... Edit: erm, the Wikipedia article also states that the typewriter "as presented to Remington" did have "." where "R" is in qwerty. I do believe that Sholes and Glidden were already selling typewriters with this change, however.