The world’s first typewriter goes to auction in Köln (Germany) on 22 March 2025. Just 35 Malling Hansen Writing Balls remain, ...

It’s there every day underneath our fingertips when we draft an email or fire off a text message. It’s so ubiquitous we ...

Introduced in 1961 by IBM, the Selectric was the first typewriter to use a golf ball-like type element that moved across the paper, rather than moving the paper carriage past the individual ...

This NSA memo from 2012 explains how several IBM Selectric typewriters used in the Moscow ... devices that could possibly have been the world’s first keyloggers. The Selectric prints with ...

The first commercial typewriters were produced in the USA in the 1870s and displayed a variety of keyboard layouts and systems of type bars. The Royal Bar-Lock 10 was an American typewriter ...

The Typewriter received its first performance when Leroy Anderson conducted his short piece (only one minute and forty-five seconds) for a Decca Records recording session on September 8 ...

After the war he joined British intelligence and served in Berlin, where he came across the typewriter. There is a 'secret' key - pressing the numeral 3 key with the shift key down, the Nazi SS ...