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 ...

MANUAL TYPEWRITERS may be anachronisms in a touch-screen world, but they are experiencing a renaissance of sorts, and not only among writers arched over their desks like commas. While the comeback has ...

In this day of hand-held computers, children who tour Montour County museums do not recognize those machines that are on the shelves of both the Mooresburg One-Room Schoolhouse and the Montgomery ...

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

Isn't it wild how quickly things change? One minute, you're using a gadget without a second thought, and the next, it's ...

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 ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Today’s archive page is from Dec. 12, 1980. Typewriter Sales & Service, located in Port Richmond, advertises its selection of stocking stuffers. “Useful, practical items -- ...