The typewriter is a machine that prints characters one after the other on sheets of paper. Many attempts to design a character-printing machine were made in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, especially to create raised characters for reading by...

A machine whose operation depends solely upon the mechanical action set in motion by striking a letter or character key. During the first 50 or more years in typewriting history, all such machines were manually operated (Figure...

A typewriter equipped with an electric motor that assists in operating the typebars and the carriage movements, while the typebars or type element is activated by a series of mechanical...

Typewriters using either a type ball or type wheel printing device. The IBM Selectric machine was the first modern typewriter of the group. FIGURE S.5B Cut away section of a...

A typewriter is a mechanical, electromechanical, or electronic device with a set of "keys" that, when pressed, causes characters to be printed on a medium, usually paper. For much of the 20th century, typewriters were indispensable tools in business...

It was inevitable. Sooner or later, the last great name in American typewriters was bound to self-destruct, bringing to a formal conclusion something that had long ago ended. It happened last week with the bankruptcy of Smith Corona, which once produced manual portable typewriters...

One day last year, my portable manual typewriter unexpectedly suffered a snapped neck, leaving the carriage return unusable. I went into a period of mourning. I placed the crippled machine-a loyal friend for some 20 years-in a respectable grave in the far room of...

coverage. The Harvard Crimson has thrashed the Times and all others on the Kaavya Viswanathan story. Today the Times failed to include a key statement in the case the Crimson reported, Random House's pointed charge to Little, Brown that its author Megan McCafferty, was...

Leading historical groups are seeking the release of grand jury records in the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, whose espionage trial for passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union became a defining moment in the Cold War.Fifty-five years after their execution, historians still debate...