It was founded in June 1947 Elisea Kiamzon Belamide originally offering dressmaking, stenography, and typewriting.
It also regulates the establishment of technical institutions including commerce institutions such as Typewriting, Shorthand and Accountancy.
Other early developers of typewriting machines include Pellegrino Turri.
Mignon Fogarty, "Grammar Girl", points out that in the past typewriting used two spaces—in deference to its monospaced font limitations—but "Now that most writing is done on computers it is no longer necessary to type two spaces after a period at the end of a sentence".