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

June 23, 1868: Christopher Latham Sholes, an editor for the Milwaukee Sentinel, obtains a patent for the first practical typewriter. Fast typists often jam the machine, so Sholes separates the ...

The first typewriter to be commercially successful was invented on June 23, 1868. One hundred years later, Social Security still used the same technology to type Social Security cards, envelopes, ...

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 ...

Paul Schweitzer is one of a dying breed. As owner of Gramercy Typewriter Co. in New York City, he repairs machines that many consider obsolete. "The younger generation says, 'Who needs typewriters?'" ...

To most people, typewriters are perhaps quaint but ultimately inert relics of a bygone age. Crafted at a time in which gears and levers could conjure something close to magic -- which typewriters darn ...

There are 4.5 million objects stored at the Milwaukee Public Museum and only about 10 percent are on display. Other collections, including vintage bicycles and typewriters, are currently being ...