The Classic Typewriter Page : All About Typewriters

The Flying Oliver welcomes you
to the strange and beautiful world of antique writing machines.
Explore and enjoy ...

Frequently Asked Questions
"What's my Woodstock worth?" and other inquiries.

A Brief History of Typewriters
Illustrated highlights.
Typewriter Spotlights
A writing machine gallery.
Remington Portables
More than you ever wanted to know about these little charmers.
Typewriter Parts
What to call the whatchamacallits.
Writers and their Typewriters
Authors' favorites, past and present.
The Fox Typewriter Company, by Tyler Anderson
A whole book about the Fox, offered here with permission of the author.
Are the Bush Documents Fakes?
An analysis of a footnote to the 2004 presidential election.

The Percy Smock Corner
Resources for the typewriter collector.
Basic Typewriter Restoration
How to make it shine.
Typewriter Manuals

Publicly Displayed Typewriters
Where to meet early writing machines in person.
Typewriter Repair Shops
Where to get it fixed.
My Own Collection
Writing machines I've amassed.
Ten Most Wanted Typewriters
An illustrated wish list.
Reviving a Hammond 1
The rebirth of an early gem.
Online Typewriter Groups
Meet other fanatics.

Loose Dog Press
Books for typewriter lovers.

The Typewriter Revolution
My book about typewriting in the 21st century.

Evertype
My novel about one guy with a typewriter.

The Typewriter Revolution blog (new!)

My (often) typewritten blog about typewriting.

Typewriter Fonts
Make your computer write almost as beautifully as a typewriter.

The Classic Typewriter Page Store
Pictures of beautiful writing machines on all sorts of products.

Typewriter Tributes
Real writers tell us why typewriters are still the way to do it.

Typology: A Phenomenology of Early Typewriters
The metaphysical significance of writing machines.

Typewriter-Related Links
The excitement just keeps on going...

This site is maintained by Richard Polt.
If you'd like to write to me, please check my FAQ first.

My contact information is here.

Check out my books:

A user's manual for the typewriter insurgency and a novel that asks if it's possible to escape the modern world.

A series that collects typewritten stories, poetry, and art.

This site first went online on December 9, 1995. It reached one million hits on April 30, 2010.

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March 2, 2012

The New York Times
March 31, 2011

BBC News Magazine
May 2008

August 2007

National Public Radio
April 2006

The Chronicle of Higher Education
May 2002

Cincinnati Magazine
August 1999

The New York Times
April 16, 1998

"Two of the site's greatest strengths reveal themselves
immediately on the home page -- specifically, spartan
design and abundant, quality illustration."
—Jim Regan, The Christian Science Monitor

"Keyboard aficionados from five continents enjoy
reminiscing at The Classic Typewriter Page."
—Newsweek, October 13, 1997

"Whether you're a collector, an admirer
or someone who's never seen a real typewriter before,
this site is a rare treat - a genuine time capsule from a lost world."
—The Passenger

"QWERTYious typists will delight in the key-tapping pleasures of
The Classic Typewriter Page, tribute to the marvelous mechanical writing machine
that has been all but whited-out by the advent of the word processor..."
—Lycos Top 5%

"Anyone with an office supplies fetish will want to stop and sigh
over the beautiful machines pictured and described here."
—AOL NetFind

"Marvelous"
—Daniel Akst, Los Angeles Times, March 13, 1996