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Every year, roughly two billion new smartphones, laptops, and tablets ship with a key arrangement designed in the 1870s to prevent slender metal arms from colliding inside a machine that has been obsolete for decades, a piece of 19th-century mechanical engineering quietly embedded in the muscle memory of about five billion people.

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Christopher Latham Sholes patented the layout that now sits under the thumbs of nearly every smartphone owner on Earth in…