On 1 July, 1874, the world's first commercially successful typewriter, the "Sholes & Glidden Type Writer", went on sale. Christopher Latham Sholes and Carlos Glidden had started developing their ...

Introduced in 1961 by IBM, the Selectric was the first typewriter to use a golf ball-like type element that moved across the paper, rather than moving the paper carriage past the individual ...

The first commercial typewriters were produced in the USA in ... Most of the content on A History of the World is created by the contributors, who are the museums and members of the public.

This NSA memo from 2012 explains how several IBM Selectric typewriters used in the Moscow ... devices that could possibly have been the world’s first keyloggers. The Selectric prints with ...

An architecture graduate who creates drawings on typewriters has taken commissions from around the world. James Cook ... He bought his first typewriter from an elderly couple who heard him ...

The Typewriter received its first performance when Leroy Anderson conducted his short piece (only one minute and forty-five seconds) for a Decca Records recording session on September 8 ...