"Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a little tiring to do so much typewriting?" "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters are without looking." Arthur Conan Doyle, A Case of Identity (1891) Original layouts for the first few mechanical typewriters were in alphabetical order (ABCDE etc.) Changes were made, mostly responding to suggestions from teleg
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