The Qwerty keyboard is commonplace with computers in the modern world, but it was invented by engineers to slow typists down rather than speed them up. The typewriter was therefore an awkward device, and despite its role in getting early 20th-century suffragettes into the workplace, it is debatable just how liberating it was for the masses.
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