Typewriters, first introduced in the early 1870s, were an important invention. They brought women into the white-collar work force in droves. It was the first office job widely available to women.

After graduating from Brown University, Thurber took a teaching role at Worcester Latin Grammar School, before becoming a ...

Worcester, a city of firsts, played a key role in the invention of the typewriter. The writing machine patented in 1843 by Worcester resident Charles Thurber, son of an East Brookfield minister, “was ...

The old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words is not actually as old as you might think. It was coined in 1921 by ...

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 ...