We often associate typewriters with the people who use them. Like Hemingway in front of his 1926 Underwood Standard Portable. Or Ian Fleming and his gold-plated Royal Quiet Deluxe. But typewriters themselves have stories to …
Growing up, when I thought of the “great American writers” I often pictured them huddled over an Underwood. Despite the fact that so many of the writers I now admire never used an Underwood. For …
Did you know? That the first electric typewriter debuted in 1899? That “blind” typewriters were hugely popular for the first few decades — in which you couldn’t actually see what you typed. Visible typewriters didn’t …
Take a close look at this typewriter. See anything odd about it? Like the keyboard? As in, there are two of them — uppercase letters and lowercase letters. And no shift key. Welcome to 1896. …