Only one MingKwai prototype is known to exist. A unique experimental typewriter stored in a New York state basement for decades turned out to be a one-of-a-kind piece of communications history.

We all know what a typewriter looks like, and how this has been translated directly into the modern day computer keyboard, or at least many of us think we do. Many cultures do not use a writing system ...

STANFORD, California — Scholars in the U.S., Taiwan and China are buzzing about the discovery of an old typewriter, because the long-lost machine is part of the origin story of modern Chinese ...

The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented in 1946, was found... How this long-lost Chinese typewriter from the 1940s ...