Metal, Ink, and Monospacing - January 5, 2017

Royal Typewriter Company and WW2

Check out this ad in LIFE Magazine explaining Royal's involvement in WW2 manufacturing.

In Lieu of Virtual Keys… - Connecticut Historical Society

While many of us have become accustomed to the world of virtual keys on tablets, phones and laptops, we often forget about the technologies that came before them, such as the typewriter. In 1868, a man by the name of Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for his invention of the typewriter, which spawned a... Read More »

oz.Typewriter: The First Royal Portable Typewriter: 90 Years Ago Today

It was on this day in 1922 that Edward Bernard Hess and Lewis Cary Myers were issued with the patent for what would become the first...

The slow death of Myanmar's typewriter industry - BBC News

Myanmar is one of the few places where many still rely on typewriters - but as change creeps in, numbers are dwindling.