You use your keyboard every day, but I bet you've rarely thought about why your keys are where they are. In the 1870s, ...

Step 1: The layout of black and white keys has been standard on most piano and keyboard instruments for centuries, but how do you find your way around it? With 88 keys, a full-size piano keyboard ...

Ever noticed the non-alphabetical keyboard layout? Typewriters’ history holds the answer. Invented to speed up writing, early models jammed when keys were pressed consecutively. Christopher Sholes’ ...