Every typewriter has a story to tell

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 …

Read more

The Underwood

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 …

Read more

The original wireless device

Forget cell phones. We know what the original wireless devices were — and, best of all, they didn’t require recharging. This premium fitted short sleeve crew is 100% ring-spun combed cotton, weighing in at 4.3oz, …

Read more

Yours Faithfully

Via Robert Messenger, I learned of a very cool exhibition happening now at the Museum of Australian Democracy. Perhaps the museum explains it best, by letter: Dear Visitor, In an age of pithy one liners, …

Read more

The Smith Premier

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. …

Read more