He continued to work on the invention, refining the typewriters manufactured at Kleinstubers machine shop, one block north of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel building.

The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented in 1946, was found last year in an upstate New York basement.

Lucas Dul repairs vintage typewriters in his parents’ Downers Grove basement. He wants to open a brick-and-mortar shop because, he says, demand for his work is great.

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