The Sholes 28 key piano style keyboard-like typewriter. But it would be his next versions that had a close version of today’s QWERTY keyboard layout. According to typewritten letters and patents of Sholes, the keyboard consisted of four rows, nearly in alphabetical order, but the “u” was next to “o”. By April, 1870 Matthias Schwalbach helped Sholes design a new typewriter with 38 keys, which consisted of capitals, numerals 2 to 9, hyphen, comma, period, and question mark. In November, 1868 Christopher Latham Sholes and his colleagues, Carlos Glidden, Samuel Willard Soulé, and James Densmore, in Milwaukee shipped out their first 28 key piano style keyboard-like typewriter to Porter’s Telegraph College in Chicago, primarily to transcribe telegraph messages. But why the QWERTY standard and not sequential alphabetical or any of the other keyboard layouts being developed by competing typewriter manufactures? Although the typewriter has a history that predates the QWERTY layout, it was a confluence of elements that gave rise to Remington winning the early typewriter standard. The rise of the industrial age to the office age in the United States closely aligns with the rise of the typewriter. Like many things in history, the QWERTY layout had fundamental contributing elements that became obscured across the span of time. This idea of the typewriter predates the office use that ultimately made it a standard business machine. The typewriter was heralded as a new way to write with greater speed, fluency and readability.