 To answer this question, we have to go back to the typewriter, which evolved with the creation of what is known as the QWERTY keyboard layout, the arrangement of letters on typewriters named for the first six letters in the top row of keys. Wisconsin politician and newspaper editor Christopher Latham Scholz, along with several of his colleagues, designed the QWERTY layout for the typewriter in the late 1800s aimed at preventing mechanical jams.