COMPUTER KEYBOARD TECH EXPLAINED
What makes this modern typewriter work?
WORDS SCOTT DUTFIELD
Keyboards come built into laptops
Today’s keyboards have evolved massively from the first mechanical typewriter, created and patented by Christopher Latham Sholes in 1868. The piano-like typewriter was very different to modern devices and was operated by a series of keys that, when pressed, lifted a lever to stamp the corresponding letter through an inked ribbon onto a roll of paper. In 1873 E. Remington and Sons began production of Sholes’ invention, and the journey to modern-day computer keyboards began.