While a Sholes & Gliddon is these days regarded as the cornerstone of any typewriter enthusiast's collection, the original and quite magnificent Malling Hansen Writing Ball is now all but ...

A similar feeling must have accompanied another device with the original keyboard – the typewriter. Just as the early pioneers of personal computer technology recognized that they were onto something ...

The key benefit of the typewriter was that it allowed the operator to type more rapidly and clearly than a person could write by hand, and it wasn't too long before the original was superseded.

Sure, there always typewriters, but it’s difficult to do anything with the fruits of a typewriter other than scan it in or make copies, and it’s basically un-editable except by hand.

If there’s only lesson to be learned from [alnwlsn]’s conversion of an IBM Selectric typewriter into a serial ... entirely within the original enclosure and with as few modifications to ...