This is a story about love, hate and Mark Twain. The object of Twain’s desire (then resentment): the typewriter. Twain first laid eyes on a “newfangled typing machine," as he called it, sometime in ...

This contraption is an early “index machine,” which uses a dial rather than a keyboard to choose letters. To work this device, you lift the bar on top to guide the Y-shaped indicator to the letter you ...

The Pomera is almost the perfect portable typing device: A four inch grayscale display, a fold-out, full-sized keyboard, twenty hours of battery life from a couple of AAAs, a CR2 coin-sized battery ...

There are very few things that are surrounded with as much hearsay and rumor as the origins of the QWERTY layout of typewriters and keyboards. The reason behind the QWERTY layout isn’t as simple as ...

Typing on mobile devices has gotten better over the years, but it's still not something to relish. The worst is when you've got a big block of text and an app crashes, or a web site becomes ...

McCool, Allen, Daugherty, Blickensderfer, Franklin, Hall and Odell are not law partners or the starting line of a football team. They are a lineup of star typewriters in the largest collection of ...

I’ve always thought the folks at reMarkable were missing a trick by not offering a keyboard for their e-paper tablet. I’m a fan of portable, distraction-reducing writing machines, and when my brain ...

Rare Books and Special Collection at Princeton, holds a Model No. 1 Remington Type-writer from 1874. The manufacture of this machine began at the gun works of Eliphalet Remington (1793-1861) in 1873 ...