<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> J </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td>. </Td> <Td> Z </Td> <Td> Y </Td> <Td> X </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> V </Td> <Td> U </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> Q </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> O </Td> </Tr> <P> The QWERTY layout was devised and created in the early 1870s by Christopher Latham Sholes, a newspaper editor and printer who lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin . In October 1867, Sholes filed a patent application for his early writing machine he developed with the assistance of his friends Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soulé . </P> <P> The first model constructed by Sholes used a piano - like keyboard with two rows of characters arranged alphabetically as shown below: </P>

Who invented the order of letters on a keyboard