These bookkeeping methods gradually diffused throughout Europe and, in the nineteenth century, to the United States. With the advent and commercial diffusion of typewriters and adding machines, some ...

As with all his other compositions, Leroy Anderson wrote The Typewriter for orchestra, completing the work on October 9, 1950. The Typewriter received its first performance when Leroy Anderson ...

Ellen Wexler is Smithsonian magazine’s assistant digital ... Some argue it was created to prevent typewriter jams, while others insist it's linked to the telegraph Based on a Colson Whitehead ...

Jimmy Stamp is a writer/researcher and recovering architect who writes for Smithsonian.com as a contributing ... Some argue it was created to prevent typewriter jams, while others insist it's ...