Today, April 25, is Anzac Day, and many New Zealanders will be honouring their war dead. But one brave New Zealander, who died on Anzac Day ...

Further to my post yesterday, today I received from Laurie Cox of the Stroppel Hotel and  Mineral Baths in Midland, South Dakota, these imag...

Of the 2937 posts on this blog, one that I am most proud of was published on March 13, 2019, under the heading, “Betsy Beaton, The Boy With ...

I’ve been asked to service before sale this 1903 (serial #302981) Underwood 5. It’s history includes a thorough rebuild in the 1920s or 30s ...

World Typewriter Day was marked yesterday and merely acted as a reminder that Latham Sholes’s earliest patents were barely practical and nee...

Barbara Jill Walters (September 25, 1929 – December 30, 2022) was an American broadcast journalist known for her interviewing ability. Walte...

The "automatic return" Halda Barking mad?: What was really wrong with it - a piece of bark in the escapement mechanism.

It's a very long time since typewriters featured so heavily on our television screens. They've done so today as networks have paid t...