After graduating from Brown University, Thurber took a teaching role at Worcester Latin Grammar School, before becoming a ...

Typewriters, first introduced in the early 1870s, were an important invention. They brought women into the white-collar work force in droves. It was the first office job widely available to women.

Worcester, a city of firsts, played a key role in the invention of the typewriter. The writing machine patented in 1843 by Worcester resident Charles Thurber, son of an East Brookfield minister, “was ...

This edition of the Dinner Party Download looks into cutlery and taste, the reading habits of younger Americans, and the history of the modern typewriter. This edition of the Dinner Party Download ...

Only one MingKwai prototype is known to exist. A unique experimental typewriter stored in a New York state basement for decades turned out to be a one-of-a-kind piece of communications history.

QWERTYFEST MKE is a 3-day festival, from Oct. 3-5, based around the origins of one of the first typewriters, which was patented in Milwaukee in 1868. This year marks a decade for this quirky ...

CBS News recently ran a story about a resurgence in manual typewriters. Apparently, they're a thing -- who knew? My recollection of manual typewriters is as something hated and to be avoided, but for ...

BEFORE I HEADED off to college (where I’d become the first in my family to attend, and graduate), my parents purchased a Royal Futura 800 portable typewriter for me. They were thinking pre-med. A ...