MoneyWeek10 年
1 July 1874: the first commercial typewriter goes on sale
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 ...
PC Magazine5 年
Selectric typewriter
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 Star25 天
You can buy Hemingway’s typewriter. But would you use it?
His was the first typewriter Soboroff bought, at auction, in 2005. From there, collecting them became a devotion. A Los Angeles-based entrepreneur and former commissioner of the Los Angeles Police ...
BBC3 年
Braintree typewriter artist James Cook attracts global interest
He now has more than 35 typewriters and has produced drawings for customers in China and the United States. He bought his first typewriter from an elderly couple who heard him asking a charity ...
PBS3 年
The Typewriter
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 ...