Newman Marshman was the inventor of the modern typewriter. As an African-American inventor, Marshman’s achievement is even more remarkable when one considers the natural obstacles that he had to ...

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 ...

After the war he joined British intelligence and served in Berlin, where he came across the typewriter. There is a 'secret' key - pressing the numeral 3 key with the shift key down, the Nazi SS ...

Happy World Typing Day! The typewriter was invented in Milwaukee 150+ years ago, and Qwertyfest MKE returns for the third ...

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