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 ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It’s the work of Marcin Wichary, a Polish designer based in Chicago who’s been blogging about keyboards for years ...

When you think of typewriters, what names come to mind? IBM? Smith Corona? Well, we see a lot of vintage typewriters, and the one name that comes up most often is Royal. The problem with a name like ...

If you’ve ever stumbled across an old typewriter, you might have wondered if it’s just a dusty relic or something more valuable. Vintage typewriters have gained popularity not only as nostalgic pieces ...

Richard Polt, creator of the Classic Typewriter Page, says that there is poetic justice in his pet project: He uses the Internet to chronicle the history of a machine that computers have made obsolete ...

When Doctor Donald Holslave's old old typewriter in the basement of the Milwaukee Public Museum, it's not out of frustration, you see, this isn't your typical office situation. likes his typewriter, ...

When singer songwriter John Mayer talks about keys, it's not always about music. Sometimes it's about the typewriter he uses. Tom Hanks not only uses one, he's collected about 100 of them. Mayer and ...