QWERTY - The Real Story! in SuperKids Educational Software Review ...

Three MYTHS about QWERTY Myth Number 1 --He did it to make typists SLOW DOWN! . Above, we see typewriter inventor Christopher Latham Sholes. For over 100 years, he has suffered a bad rap. According to MYTH, his original machine was so clumsy that it tended to jam when operated by typists working at high speed. Biologist Stephen Jay Gould used the keyboard to compare technological evolution, to ...