Who invented the QWERTY Keyboard?

Who invented the QWERTY Keyboard?

• Thomas John Watson
• Christopher Latham Sholes
• William Henry "Bill" Gates III
• Rosaline Martha Qwerty 

EXPLANATION

QWERTY (/ˈkwɜːrti/) is a keyboard design for Latin-script alphabets. The name comes from the order of the first six keys on the top left letter row of the keyboard (Q W E R T Y). The QWERTY design is based on a layout created for the Sholes and Glidden typewriter and sold to E. Remington and Sons in 1873. It became popular with the success of the Remington No. 2 of 1878, and remains in widespread use.  

The QWERTY layout was devised and created in the early 1870s by Christopher Latham Sholes, a newspaper editor and printer who lived in Kenosha, Wisconsin. In October 1867, Sholes filed a patent application for his early writing machine he developed with the assistance of his friends Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soulé.^[1]
The first model constructed by Sholes used a piano-like keyboard with two rows of characters arranged alphabetically as shown below:^[1]

- 3 5 7 9 N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
2 4 6 8 . A B C D E F G H I J K L M