Daily Quiz for October 29, 2014

The modern typewriter. The idea of a typewriter dates to at least 1714, but Sholes’ "improvement in type-writing machines" consisted of a new layout of keys. The original Sholes layout was like a piano keyboard. However, that proved unworkable as the keys kept jamming. In the 1870s Sholes and his partner, Glidden, developed the now famous QWERTY keyboard to prevent jamming and increase typing speed.