Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In 1868 a newspaper editor in Milwaukee built a machine to write in characters that resembled print. He called it a ...

The first typewriter to be commercially successful was invented on June 23, 1868. One hundred years later, Social Security still used the same technology to type Social Security cards, envelopes, ...

June 23, 1868: Christopher Latham Sholes, an editor for the Milwaukee Sentinel, obtains a patent for the first practical typewriter. Fast typists often jam the machine, so Sholes separates the ...

QWERTYFEST MKE is a 3-day festival, from Oct. 3-5, based around the origins of one of the first typewriters, which was patented in Milwaukee in 1868. This year marks a decade for this quirky ...

Chances are you’re typing on a keyboard as you read this. But could you imagine typing on a set of keys like the ones above? The typewriter keyboard has a long and colorful history — and here are some ...

The first typewriter to be commercially successful was invented June 23, 1868. One hundred years later, Social Security still used the same technology to type Social Security cards, envelopes, forms ...