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On the Web
- Shannon L. Johnson Typewriter Collection - Contains tributes to select early typewriter companies and featured machines form Mr. Johnson's collection. And sources for hard to find supplies for antique typewriters.
- The Classic Typewriter Page - Offers a wealth of information for antique typewriter collectors, including history, collecting and care tips, and typewriter humor.
- Chuck and Rich's Antique Typewriter Website and Museum - Virtual museum of antique typewriters, including toy, index, and special purpose typewriters. Also has information on selected early office items.
- The Classic Typewriter Store - Specializing in restored vintage typewriters, brand new manual typewriters, and related accessories. Includes typewriter history, images, and a screen saver.
- Early Typewriter Collectors Association - Information about ETCetera, the Journal of the Early Typewriter Collectors Association.
- Mike Campbell's Antique Typewriters - Information on collecting typewriters. Includes a gallery, restoration tips, and resources.
- Antique Typewriter Collecting - Anthony Casillo provides information on collectable typewriters, including pictorial gallery of early typewriters.
- Swedish Typewriter Page - Includes a brief history of typewriters, examples of early models, and common questions about collecting. In Swedish and English.
- Portable Typewriters - An illustrated history of early typewriters by typewriter collector Richard Milton.
- The Antique Typewriter Down Under Connection - Australian site detailing the history of typewriters and providing a forum for discussion.
Wikipedia Articles
- IBM Electric typewriter - The IBM Electric typewriters were a series of electric typewriters that IBM manufactured, starting in the late 1940s. They used the conventional moving carriage and hammer mechanism.
- French spacing - French spacing is the typographical practice of adding two spaces (rather than one) after a full stop (period), and sometimes after a colon as well. The practice originated in the United States with the introduction of typewriters and their monospaced fonts.
- Copyholder - A copyholder is a device that holds written material for typing. They have been used with typewriters or more often on a computer word processor.
- James Densmore - James Densmore was a business associate of Christopher Sholes, who along with Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule helped contribute to inventing one of the first practical typewriters at a machine shop located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- Non-spacing character - A non-spacing character, when typed, doesn't move the entry point to the next character, as in conventional typewriters where to type an 'ä' one must type the umlaut (¨) first and then 'a' which will go into the same space.