# Christopher Latham Sholes — Patents explained on PatentBrief

Christopher Latham Sholes has 1 landmark patent explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [How the QWERTY Keyboard Layout Was Originally Designed](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/207559/qwerty-typewriter-sholes) — granted 1878
  An 1878 patent by Christopher Latham Sholes that helped standardize the keyboard layout we still use on computers and phones today.

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