Consider The QWERTY keyboard. It was primarily invented so flamboyant typewriter sales people can type TYPEWRITER in one motion demonstrations to wow potential customers. Read more here https://qr.ae/TW8Np4 In this lost 1943 film we can see a history of typewriters...pic.twitter.com/xVn4M2UkGq
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Replying to @BrianRoemmele
I thought this was an optimal layout to stop bars clashing on most commonly typed words?
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Replying to @richmorgans
Richard, thanks for asking “er” + “re” are the most used word parings in English. They are on the same bar. I cover that in the
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They’re not on the same bar. They’re not even on two adjacent bars, at risk of clashing. E and R were two bars apart on the original typewriter. This is a common misconception; please see Neil Kay’s papers or e.g. http://widespacer.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-hidden-secrets-of-qwerty.html …, which specifically mentions this.
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Marcin, thank you. I have read this paper. However this is not what was in the first patents or in any of the Remington patents. Nor was this how the first QWERTY typewriters built. The big misconception is the reason the keyboard was invented simply was not mechanical.
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Marcin, I give higher resolution on this in @Quora answer. It was recently added into the library of Congress. https://qr.ae/TW8Np4
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