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 ...

STANFORD, California — Scholars in the U.S., Taiwan and China are buzzing about the discovery of an old typewriter, because the long-lost machine is part of the origin story of modern Chinese ...

The first practical typewriter was slow, crude and never actually manufactured. Despite its flaws, it was the 1843 creation by East Brookfield native Charles Thurber that changed the way we exchange ...