When was the keyboard made?

Answer by  lancepea (84)

The first keyboard was made in 1714 by Henry Mill but it was alphabetical and it had many problems because the keys would get stuck and jam. As a result, in 1875 the QWERTY keyboard was invented, which is the keyboard we use today, to solve this severe jamming problem.

Answer by  katt (16)

The first keyboard was made by Henry Mill in 1714, but his version was cumbersome and was replaced by the QWERTY keyboard in 1867 by Christopher Shole. The keyboard was adapted for use by computers in 1948 for the Northrop Aircraft Company to be used for their proprietary early computer, the BINAC computer.

Answer by  xAtomichamsterx (100)

Keyboards date back to when most people used typewriters to type various letters earlier in the century. Although the medium has changed, the same QWERTY format has remained the same. The first modern day keyboard was developed around the same time as the first computers, earlier than even when Bill Gates first started out.

Answer by  nimrod (321)

in 1870 the typewriter was invented and its development produced the design of current computer keyboards. It was in 1948 that Binac Computers adopted the use of a typewriter, and in 1964 the Multics system combined the electrical typewriter with a monitor and a computer.

Answer by  CarolynOsborne (2804)

The qwerty keyboard was created when typewriters were invented. The mechanical action of typewriters was slow, so the keyboard was designed with oft-used letters in the left hand!

Answer by  Josh41 (113)

The design of the modern computer keyboard was finalized in the 1970s and 1980s, although it shared the original layout of the typewriter, developed by Christopher Latham Sholes in 1868. Over the 100 years after the typewriter's invention, only minimal changes were made to the keyboard even though it was used by many companies.

Answer by  toastedcheese (216)

The first commercial typewriter with the modern QWERTY layout that we use today was produced in 1873, based on a design by Christopher Shole, who invented it in 1867. This technology was first adapted to computer use in 1948 for the BINAC computer, an early computer designed for Northrop Aircraft Company.

Answer by  CharlesPagano (5)

Surprisingly the first keyboard was made more than one hundred years before the first computer was made. This keyboard had many problems such as keys getting stuck. A much better version of the keyboard was made thirty years after the first computer and in 1948 the keyboard was modified for use on computers.

Answer by  carwash (148)

in 1868 by Christopher Sholes. but for a keyboard for a computer it would be 1877 when it was mass produced bye rimmington. But the actual type writter was the old school ones that were using for typing letters.

Answer by  worker74 (31)

Between 1943 and 1946, the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at University of Pennsylvania built ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)which was the earliest computer that contained a keyboard

Answer by  Rawr (15)

It was invented in 1868 by Christopher Sholes. Hope I was of some help! More information is available at: ideafinder dot come.

Answer by  pcguy (307)

keyboard both refers to the musical instrument as the computer perhiperal, both origined in the beginning of the 20th century.