there is only one first, and it trumps provenance. The most recent example of the Writing Ball to come to auction fetched US$200,000 in 2021, making it the second most valuable typewriter ever ...

Computers and smartphones might be where most writing is done these days, but typewriters still have work to do in the US.

On 1 July, 1874, the world's first commercially successful typewriter, the "Sholes & Glidden Type Writer", went on sale. Christopher Latham Sholes and Carlos Glidden had started developing their ...

Google Doodle Today honours Oskar Picht, the German inventor behind the first braille typewriter ... He was also the first ever to give a radio lecture about the blind. He spent his life working ...