Remembering Henry Dreyfuss

Dreyfuss was born in New York in 1904 to a family in the theatrical materials supply business. He began as a stage designer. From 1923...

The Typewriter Manifesto

We assert our right to resist the Paradigm, to rebel against the Information Regime, to escape the Data Stream. We strike a blow for self-reliance,...

Ames Segment Pick

I ordered a segment pick from Bremerton Typewriter Company several weeks ago. The segment is the arched piece near the center of a typewriter where...

Is my old typewriter worth any money?

Are Old Typewriters Worth Anything?

So you found an old typewriter in grandma’s attic. Or maybe you came across one for cheap at a garage sale and you want to...

Cold War

Project GUNMAN

Sixteen typewriters in the US embassy in Moscow and the US consulate in Leningrad spent as long as eight years transmitting everything typed on them...

The Unibomber

The Corona in the Loft

The manhunt started on May 25, 1978, when a package exploded at the University of Illinois at Chicago and injured a security guard. The FBI...

Zodiac Killer

The Confession Letter

Cheri Jo Bates was murdered near a community college campus in Riverside, California, and for the sixty years since, her case has sat at the...

Hiss-Chambers Case

Hiss-Chambers & Exhibit UUU

This case is at the center of one of the most durable conspiracy theories in American history. It played out just as Cold War anti-communist...

Closeup of typewriter slugs

How a Typewriter Became a Witness

Long before anyone thought to compare typefaces, courts were already comparing marks on paper. The tradition goes back further than most people assume......
John K. Stockham, Washington, D.C. insurance man, turns a machine over to Don MacDonald, Washington, D.C. typewriter dealer

Forty-Two Keys to Victory

In July of 1942, John K. Stockham walked into a shop in Washington, D.C. and handed his typewriter across the counter to a man named......