BEFORE I HEADED off to college (where I’d become the first in my family to attend, and graduate), my parents purchased a Royal Futura 800 portable typewriter for me. They were thinking pre-med. A ...

Worcester, a city of firsts, played a key role in the invention of the typewriter. The writing machine patented in 1843 by Worcester resident Charles Thurber, son of an East Brookfield minister, “was ...

This edition of the Dinner Party Download looks into cutlery and taste, the reading habits of younger Americans, and the history of the modern typewriter. This edition of the Dinner Party Download ...

This excerpt from a World War II-era instructional film includes an overview of early typewriters. Courtesy of the Prelinger Archive, Basic Typing is 30 minutes long and available in two parts (part I ...

QWERTYFEST MKE is a 3-day festival, from Oct. 3-5, based around the origins of one of the first typewriters, which was patented in Milwaukee in 1868. This year marks a decade for this quirky ...

When you think of typewriters, what names come to mind? IBM? Smith Corona? Well, we see a lot of vintage typewriters, and the one name that comes up most often is Royal. The problem with a name like ...

CBS News recently ran a story about a resurgence in manual typewriters. Apparently, they're a thing -- who knew? My recollection of manual typewriters is as something hated and to be avoided, but for ...

Only one MingKwai prototype is known to exist. A unique experimental typewriter stored in a New York state basement for decades turned out to be a one-of-a-kind piece of communications history.