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A New Typewriter Book
Excited to announce I will be launching a new typewriter book at the Australian Typewriter Collectors' Convention 2026 at Wollstonecraft in Sydney on September 26.It's called "Typing for Oz:...
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The Royal Portable Typewriter That Had Seen Action From Haight-Ashbury to the...
A client brought his late uncle's 1927 Royal portable into the workshop this morning (serial number P32950). The machine itself is in almost immaculate condition, though I've never seen such moldy,...
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Underwood Universal Portable Typewriter in 'The Glass Menagerie'?
Around the time my dear friend Geoffrey Borny announced he was to direct a season of the Canberra Rep’s The Glass Menagerie, I chanced upon a copy of the 1978 book The World of Tennessee Williams,...
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THE UPPER AND LOWER CASE FOR (TYPEWRITTEN) LETTERS
VISITORSto the typewriter museum invariably express astonishment when the origin of the “Shift” key on a computer keyboard is demonstrated to them. I point it out by shifting the carriage on my 1878...
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(Typewriter) Screw Loose
It’s coming up this month to the 91st anniversary of Jesse Owens’s remarkable achievement of establishing six world records on the one afternoon at Ferry Field in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His long jump...
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A Tale of Two Brother Typewriters
There was I preparing to write a post in praise of Japanese-made typewriters. Then up turns a man who is opting out of this mad, mad, mad world and heading off to an overgrown paddock in Fiji. So he...
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He Used His Noodle - And His Typewriter
ON THE day I was born – 78 years ago yesterday – a young man in Detroit, Michigan, turned his life around. He did it with a battered old Underwood typewriter and 40 cartons of noodle soup. Of course...
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Olivetti Typewriter Ad “As She Recalled It”
So pleased to see that Margaret Talbot, a 22-year veteran staff writer for The New Yorker, has taken the trouble to check the facts laid out in my ozTypewriter blog posts of September 2020. Talbot...
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From 12-Year-Old ‘Violin Genius’ to Typewriter History Pathfinder: The...
Typewriter historian Michael Adler as a 12-year-old"violin genius", in Sydney in 1947.When The Sydney Morning Herald reviewed Michael Adler’s first typewriter history, it said The Writing Machine was...
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Death of Michael Adler, The Great Typewriter Historian
The groundbreaking typewriter historian Michael Hugo Adler died on the Fourth of July this year, aged 90, on the Greek Island of Mykonos. At the time, the passing of a man who had made such a massive...
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Chipping Away for the Workers. Reg Bailey and his Imperial Good Companion...
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 in 1963, will not be remembered. All that remains to remind...
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Julia Talledge in The Black Hills with her Oliver No 9 Typewriter
Further to my post yesterday, today I received from Laurie Cox of the Stroppel Hotel and Mineral Baths in Midland, South Dakota, these images of Julia Talledge at her Oliver No 9 typewriter. It was yet...
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For 'KL': The Boy With The Green Hair
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 Green Hair and the Underwood 6 Typewriter”. There wasn’t a...
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On This Day 120 Years Ago: The Underwood 5 Standard Typewriter Shift-Lock
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 by an Elizabeth Street, Sydney, outfit called Typewriter...
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Jefferson Moody Clough, The Unsung "Typewriter Maker of Ilion"
World Typewriter Day was marked yesterday and merely acted as a reminder that Latham Sholes’s earliest patents were barely practical and needed a lot of work before a fully functioning typewriter could...
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