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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Beginning at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 27, the central Phoenix bookstore will be filled with the click-clacking of a wide ...

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