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 ...

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 ...

CHM copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "The Visual History of Type' is a comprehensive, detailed survey of the major typefaces produced since the advent of printing with ...

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 ...

After discovering that a history of keyboards— from typewriters to iPhones—had yet to be written, designer and typographer Marcin Wichary got to work. When the designer and typographer Marcin Wichary ...