Check out Curiosity Stream: http://go.thoughtleaders.io/1438020200120 If you happe→→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Follow Simon on social media: https://twitter.com/SimonWhistler https://www.instagram.com/simonwhistler/ Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut: Has Any Passenger Ever Landed a Commercial Airliner and How Likely is it You Could? https://youtu.be/bP_XPLFEMng Can Police Really Commandeer Your Vehicle Like in the Movies? https://youtu.be/eQC8IxoNAkg In this video: The origin of the keyboard starts, unsurprisingly with the first typewriters. There were a variety of type-writer-like devices around going back the 18th century, before one Christopher Latham Sholes, with some help from a few other guys, came up with one that would become the first commercially successful typewriter in the 1870s. Want the text version?: https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2019/12/who-invented-the-keyboard-and-is-the-dvorak-really-better-than-the-qwerty/