After graduating from Brown University, Thurber took a teaching role at Worcester Latin Grammar School, before becoming a principal and later opening an arms manufacturing company in 1831 with his ...

FAIRLAND, Ind. (AP) - Terry Vorten witnessed firsthand the death throes of a once-world-beating analog technology - the typewriter. Its destruction turned his lucrative profession repairing the ...

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In 1956, IBM built a typewriter factory off of New Circle Road, where it would manufacture the Selectric typewriter.

LACEY - The package arrived via FedEx in mid-April, and 40-year-old Ian McAndrew opened it with the enthusiasm and anticipation of a kid on Christmas morning. Out came a 1934 Underwood portable ...

DULUTH — Josh Nickila didn’t give typewriters much thought. The machines were on their way out by the time he was born in 1985, and Nickila, of Duluth, said his earliest memories of typing were on a ...

Rachel Spence lost her job and caught COVID-19 in quick succession. Looking for a hobby in the wake of that disruption, ...

There’s no going back. Period. The chosen word has been pressed into permanence, etched in eternity. So, go with it, or go get another piece of paper. When using the venerable typewriter, there’s no ...

Walking through Tom Furrier’s Arlington shop is like taking a brief tour of the last century. The walls are covered with faded typewriter advertisements, and every shelf and table surface is crowded ...

Doug Nichol’s documentary “California Typewriter” is a rich, thoughtful, meticulously crafted tapestry about the evolution of the beloved writing machine for purists, history buffs, collectors and ...

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