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Worcester County Wonders: Locals took hands in creating typewriter

After graduating from Brown University, Thurber took a teaching role at Worcester Latin Grammar School, before becoming a ...
OnMilwaukee

Women's complicated relationship with the typewriter is not black-and-white

Happy National Typewriter Day! This article ran in 2023. QWERTYFEST MKE celebrates the invention of the typewriter in Milwaukee 151 years ago and OnMilwaukee is the media sponsor. Commercial ...
New Atlas

Last chance to see? World's first typewriter heads to auction

The world’s first typewriter goes to auction in Köln (Germany) on 22 March 2025. Just 35 Malling Hansen Writing Balls remain, 30 are in museums and the battle for one of the few remaining specimens ...
Marketplace

The history of the keyboard is filled with battles, controversies and lasers

In his book “Shift Happens,” Marcin Wichary explains the innovations that turned the typewriter of 1873 into the keyboards of today. How many hours a day do you spend at a computer typing? Or staring ...