Who invented the keyboard?

The invention of the keyboard, as we know it, is credited to a man by the name of Christopher Latham Sholes, along with Carlos Glidden and Samuel Soule. It was invented in 1867 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin when the three men created, and received a patent for, the first typewriter. Interestingly, one of the earliest keyboards used on the typewriter had the same QWERTY keyboard configuration that is seen on modern keyboards today. Why Sholes and the others decided to arrange the keys of the first keyboards in this way is a topic of discussion to this day. The keyboard's popularity--and particularly that of the QWERTY arrangement--is in large part due to the arms manufacturer Remington, who agreed to a deal with Sholes and Glidden to produce and manufacture the typewriter.