STANFORD, California — Scholars in the U.S., Taiwan and China are buzzing about the discovery of an old typewriter, because the long-lost machine is part of the origin story of modern Chinese ...

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 ...

The first practical typewriter was slow, crude and never actually manufactured. Despite its flaws, it was the 1843 creation by East Brookfield native Charles Thurber that changed the way we exchange ...

There’s nothing like the sound of a manual typewriter. Jim Flamson knows it all too well. Flamson, who lives in Calistoga, has a collection of typewriters. Fifty-three typewriters to be exact, all ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. National Museum of American History ...

When singer songwriter John Mayer talks about keys, it's not always about music. Sometimes it's about the typewriter he uses. Tom Hanks not only uses one, he's collected about 100 of them. Mayer and ...

Rob Blickensderfer of Albany started collecting typewriters for a simple reason: “My name’s Blickensderfer,” he explained to an audience at the Albany Regional Museum’s History Bites lecture series ...