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QWERTY on History Deserves to be Remembered

by on June 23, 2021

The History Guy posted this video today (June 23: “Typewriter Day”), and it includes research featured here, including a reference to M.A. Saunders who suggested the final keyboard arrangement – see here. I’m a fan of the History Guy, and it is nice to see the typewriter featured on his channel.

© 2021, Mark Adams. All rights reserved.

Related posts:

"Yes, I am the author of QWERTYUIOP, the most widely read line written by a woman."
1905 editorial: The typewriter "liberated" men too!
A twisted alphabet

Also at Type-Writer.org:

  1. Learn your DHIATENSORs? Early in 1911, The Boston Globe published “A Twisted Alphabet” (see post here), in which the author championed changing the alphabet to the QWERTY arrangement...
  2. Jennie Wehle: A lady typewriter When Jennie Wehle took employment as a typewriter in 1888, her decision excited no small amount of interest. According to news reports, she was the...
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