Typewriter Updates, Photos, Bio & Fun Facts

After finishing 'Beautiful Losers,' Leonard Cohen sent his typewriter into the sea.

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William S. Burroughs said typewriters could write lives into existence. ✨

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William S. Burroughs

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David McCullough used typewriter for every book he has published.

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David McCullough

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J. R. R. Tolkien balanced his typewriter on his attic bed. 🛌🏻

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J. R. R. Tolkien

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Leroy Anderson's 'The Typewriter' uses a typewriter as a percussion instrument.

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Leroy Anderson's 'The Typewriter' uses a typewriter as a percussion instrument.

Biography

A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for writing characters similar to those produced by printer's movable type. Typically, a typewriter has an array of keys, and pressing one causes a different single character to be produced on the paper, by causing a ribbon with dried ink to be struck against the paper by a type element similar to the sorts used in movable type letterpress printing. Commonly a separate type element corresponds to each key, but the mechanism may also use a single type element with a different portion of it used for each possible character. At the end of the nineteenth century, the term typewriter was also applied to a person who used a typing machine.

Tom Hanks collects typewriters.

Ray Bradbury's 'Fahrenheit 451' was written on a rented typewriter.

DYK Mark Twain was the first author to submit a typewritten manuscript? 📔

Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder types many of the band's lyrics on typewriters. ⚡

Hunter S. Thompson kept a typewriter in his kitchen and used it until he died.

After finishing 'Beautiful Losers,' Leonard Cohen sent his typewriter into the sea.

William S. Burroughs said typewriters could write lives into existence. ✨

David McCullough used typewriter for every book he has published.

J. R. R. Tolkien balanced his typewriter on his attic bed. 🛌🏻

Leroy Anderson's 'The Typewriter' uses a typewriter as a percussion instrument.