Early QWERTY manual typewriter keyboards rarely had keys for the number 1 or an exclamation point. Typists used a lowercase letter L for the number 1. They typed an apostrophe, backspaced and then typed a period beneath it to form an exclamation point. The QWERTY system — named for the first five letters on the top left of the keyboard — was patented in 1878 by Christopher Latham Sholes, a newspaperman from Milwaukee.
Sir Isaac Pitman and John Robert Gregg are most closely associated with what office timesaver?
A) Adding machine
B) Carbon paper
C) Postage meter
D) Shorthand writing system
Previous answer: Since the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1959, the Dalai Lama has lived in exile in India.
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