Ten Facts About the Keyboard

Published by Sir Poetry in Trivia
June 10, 2009

Ten facts about the keyboard. Like the one right in front of you, or a musical keyboard.

The key board was created in the mid eighteen hundreds by a man named Christopher L. Sholes.
Typewriter is the only ten letter word that only uses the top keys.
A musical key board is a set of keys that each one makes a different sound.
The first use of the keyboard was the type writer in the mid years of the eighteen hundreds by Christopher L. Sholes.
The mass market of Keyboards started in the year of eighteen seventy seven.
The two Idea’s of telegraphing and teletypes are what led to the Keyboard.
The first key board was only used to print out electro Magnetic tape that you would then Feed into the computer.
The oldest type of Keyboard for computers was the Binac Model.
Bye the nineteen Eighties all Computer Keyboards were Electric.
While most buttons create numbers, letters, and signs, by pressing many button simultaneously you can create different symbols, signs, and letters or just different styles, fonts, or size of them.

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Darla Smith

Posted June 10, 2009 at 10:10 am

Very interesting facts.
Pinaki Ghosh

Posted June 10, 2009 at 11:21 am

The facts are really interesting.
payge

Posted June 10, 2009 at 11:37 am

Always wondered how the keyboard came into existance,now I know.Very interesting facts.
Liane Schmidt

Posted June 10, 2009 at 9:03 pm

Very interesting *:)

Blessings.

Sincerely,

-Liane Schmidt.
kingnmber2

Posted June 11, 2009 at 3:45 pm

all very interesting facts, keep on writing i look forward to more!
Poetic Enigma

Posted June 12, 2009 at 11:59 pm

Great article, lots of great facts!
maddie

Posted August 11, 2009 at 2:06 am

well done!! you are a great help..i needed exactly this t finish an 8 PAGE ESSAY DUE 2MORROW!!! thanks again x