Eudora Welty’s portable manual typewriter is on display at the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson. “It’s a quiet deluxe model ...

By Annette Hinkle Most of us have noticed this since the dawn of the 21st century, but there’s a trend in technological ...

Our exploration of typewriter history barely begins to cover the electric models, adding convenience and noise to the typing process. Still, early typewriters' mechanical simplicity and tactile ...

Typewriters may be long past their heyday, but just because PCs, word processor software, and cheap printers have made them largely obsolete doesn’t mean the world is better off without them.

On 1 July, 1874, the world's first commercially successful typewriter, the "Sholes & Glidden Type Writer", went on sale. Christopher Latham Sholes and Carlos Glidden had started developing their ...

After the war he joined British intelligence and served in Berlin, where he came across the typewriter. There is a 'secret' key - pressing the numeral 3 key with the shift key down, the Nazi SS ...

The first commercial typewriters were produced in the USA ... Most of the content on A History of the World is created by the contributors, who are the museums and members of the public.

The Cambridge Typewriter Company is one of the last of ... I feel there's an energy to this place because there is so much history in here." The decision to close his beloved store was not an ...

Iris is her Olympia Traveller Deluxe typewriter, made in Yugoslavia in 1970. Iris makes the writing process really smooth, she says. I used typewriters in my first job as a journalist. They were ...

After 45 years fixing, selling, and tinkering with typewriters, Tom Furrier will retire and close the iconic Cambridge Typewriter Co. in Arlington after waiting a year for a potential buyer to ...