text: who designed the "qwerty" keyboard? or the arrangement of keys currently used on most keyboards? hi.  there's plenty of information over this topic in various search engines. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/special:search?search=qwerty+history&go=go http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=%2bqwerty+history http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=%2bqwerty+history+wiki http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=+site:dmoz.org+%2bqwerty+history http://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result?p=qwerty+history http://answers.google.com/answers/search?q=qwerty+history&qtype=all&num=100&sort=qeprice%3aa%3ar%3ad1 http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=+site:answers.com+%2bqwerty+history http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=%2bqwerty+history+forum http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=qwerty+history