It is always interesting to see the various designs and the placement of instruments. There is a website that had lots of shots of cockpits and when one stops and has to ask, "Why did they design this instrument this way and why its location??"

Post WWII (pre-six pack) the manufacturers were mostly in control of what went where along with the tactile coding for switches. Lots of airplanes landing gear up when pilots thought they had lowered gear but had lowered flaps. There is a reason the gear handle feels like a wheel and the flap handle feels like a wing. And there are regs defining what knob can be within proximity of another knob.. they have to FEEL different although many are not that much different. Anyone with time in an automated cockpit has reset the wrong system based on touch.