Occasionally I’ll want to do some writing and share it with the world, but it’s not exactly fitting for this blog. After all, I do think about things other than typewriters from time to time. The thought of creating another blog has crossed my mind, but that’s not really necessary thanks to One Typed Page, the …
Most people associate Thomas Edison with the light bulb despite the fact that he wasn’t the inventor of this device. What Mr. Edison did was to salvage a good idea and make it great. So it goes with Ted Munk and the Typewriter Database. While Ted wasn’t the original creator, he is the one who salvaged …
I first discovered Joe Van Cleave under the same circumstances that so many others have — I was searching for information on typewriters. My curiosity about typewriters was still in the earliest stages back then. Unlike most of the other resources that I was locating at that point in time, Joe’s content kept popping up in …
There are celebrities among all walks of life — that includes the typewriter community of course. While Tom Hanks happens to be a very well known celebrity who loves typewriters, I view Richard Polt as a bonafide “typewriter celebrity”. Richard wrote what many have come to view as the seminal book on how so many …
One of the things I hoped to accomplish with this blog, even before launching it, was to feature some of the personalities who are active in the typewriter community. I wanted to turn the tables on those who have worked so hard and given so much of their time to shine the spotlight on these …
