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Typewriter & Keyboard
Sholes' typewriter (patent 1868, Remington 1873) makes machine-written text standard and fixes the QWERTY keyboard.
Open in the interactive tree →Mass-produced by a gun maker with precision methods, typewriters spread through offices and made mechanical writing a skill. Teletypes carried the keyboard into computing, and QWERTY still lies under our fingers on phones.
Prerequisites
- Printing Press~1450
- Interchangeable Parts~1800–1850
Unlocks
- Personal Computer1981The PC inherited the typewriter's QWERTY keyboard
- Unicode1991