The world’s first typewriter goes to auction in Köln (Germany) on 22 March 2025. Just 35 Malling Hansen Writing Balls remain, 30 are in museums and the battle for one of the few remaining specimens ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Only one MingKwai prototype is known to exist. A unique experimental typewriter stored in a New York state basement for decades ...

On March 1, 1873, the Remington company started making the first commercially-successful typewriter, marketed as the Sholes and Glidden (or Remington No. 1) typewriter. Unlike other attempts at a ...

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 ...

Manual typewriters--they just don't make 'em any more! (Do they?) Still, they remain visible icons of the writing life. One man, Steve Soboroff, is committed to preserving the legacy of typewriters.