两小时后，他躺在办公室地板上，查看这类设备的专利文件。在过去一个半世纪里，竟然造出了几十种不同的中文打字机。每一种都是发明者就如何将数千个汉字融入一台机器且使其可用给出的方案——是他们语言理念的具体体现。这些打字机从未大量生产，如今越来越罕见，和大多 ...

A historian went down an 18-year rabbit hole in search of obsolete machines. But there was one he thought he’d never find.

I remember a toy typewriter from the 1950’s. The type was on a wheel, like a Dymo labelmaker or daisywheel printer. You laid the piece of paper on the table, and sat the typewriter on top of it.

The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented ...

FREDDIE Pamaybay has been a typewriter repairman since 1989. He started as a helper and gradually mastered the craft of ...

Cambridge Typewriter owner Tom Furrier at work on a typewriter in 2021. – David L Ryan/Globe Staff, File Furrier’s involvement at Cambridge Typewriter — now located in Arlington — dates ...

The typewriter is an emotive machine. A typewriter is a time machine. There is a certain romance to it, and the owner tends to form an extremely personal relationship with it.

Directed, photographed, and edited by Doug Nichol, “California Typewriter” isn’t a dry and dutiful history-of-the-typewriter movie. It’s a playful piece of Luddite fetishism, in thrall to ...