Qwerty was the brainchild of Milwaukee port official Christopher Sholes Look down from the screen on which you are reading this, and wonder. Q-W-E-R-T-Y. How on earth did this pattern of letters get ...

We use the keyboards we use simply because they’re the ones we’ve always used. Is this the most efficient layout of letters? Hephzibah Anderson takes a look. They may not be quite as superstitious as ...