Oblation Papers & Press co-owner Ron Rich (second from left) talks with Cindy Bilotti (second from right), who, with her son, Ben, bought a refurbished Czechoslovakian Consul typewriter during the ...

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 ...

Typing on mobile devices has gotten better over the years, but it's still not something to relish. The worst is when you've got a big block of text and an app crashes, or a web site becomes ...

If there’s any one thing I’ve learned about myself during the COVID-19 quarantine, it’s that the internet is both my best friend and my worst enemy. Not that the distractions of the worldwide web are ...

The Pomera is almost the perfect portable typing device: A four inch grayscale display, a fold-out, full-sized keyboard, twenty hours of battery life from a couple of AAAs, a CR2 coin-sized battery ...

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 ...

Excerpted from New Scientist: The Origin of (almost) Everything, written by Graham Lawton and illustrated by Jennifer Daniel. Technology often contributes new words to the English language: television ...

Back in 1896, the QWERTY keyboard layout was created to increase typing speed, but for a reason that is no longer valid on today's computers. The first typing machines had keyboards with an ...