The first typewriter patented by Christopher Latham Sholes had a keyboard that was in alphabetical order. Letters positioned ... look at the arrangement on his machine, it looks like common ...

If you’ve ever looked down at your keyboard and wondered why it’s not in alphabetical order, you’re not alone ... and was engineered to stop the machine from jamming. This myth is the ...

Press more keys and you could type a word, or even a whole book. The first machine had the letter keys in alphabetical order. The trouble was that if you hit two keys quickly the levers would jam.