Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer" #OTD in 1868.
This was the first typewriter to be a commercial success (about 5000 were made), the first to use the QWERTY keyboard layout invented by Sholes, and the first to be called a typewriter; the term was coined by Sholes. via @Wikipedia
Follow
And the story I've always heard is that the QWERTY keyboard layout was deliberately designed to limit typing speed, because typing too fast would jam the mechanism.
No idea if that's a true thing, or a myth.
