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.

The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented in 1946, was found last year in an upstate New York basement.

The Most Unusual Sentence Extractor, or MUSE, is a Raspberry Pi-based typewriter with the best of both worlds. It’s essentially a word processor, but it can save to the cloud.

The typewriter isn’t exactly a modern technology: a patent for something that sounds an awful lot like one can be found as early as 1714. But it was in the early 19th century that real ...

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

The portable typewriter [Konstantin] found, a Silver Reed 2200 CR, looks like a model from the early 1980s, just before PCs and word processing software would sound the death knell for typewriters.

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 ...