Our exploration of typewriter history barely begins to cover the electric models, adding convenience and noise to the typing process. Still, early typewriters' mechanical simplicity and tactile ...

Today, typewriters live in a few places ... It’s also a tether to our history, and a reminder that the click-clacking sound ...

A man in Portland, Oregon thinks he may have a typewriter that belonged to the ... bullet on the island of Ie Shima on April 18, 1945. History Detectives investigates the fascinating life of ...

The Sholes and Glidden typewriter came to market in 1874, manufactured by E. Remington & Sons, which was then expanding its offerings after a lucrative spell manufacturing firearms for the Union.

John Lennon's typewriter could be yours as a British collectibles company brings it from New York to public sale. Find out ...

But she doesn't use a computer to do it. Instead, she types out each manuscript on one of her 1940s Olympia typewriters — and she has very good reasons for doing it the old-school way.

In New York City, there’s still at least one place left untouched by modern tech. At Gramercy Typewriter Co., there isn’t a screen in sight — the most advanced piece of technology may just ...

A local businessman, Mr J.G. Chattaway, was persuaded to finance the opening of a small factory in Garton Street, Leicester, where The Moya Typewriter Company could develop, manufacture and market ...

After the war he joined British intelligence and served in Berlin, where he came across the typewriter. There is a 'secret' key - pressing the numeral 3 key with the shift key down, the Nazi SS ...

Typewriters may be long past their heyday, but just because PCs, word processor software, and cheap printers have made them largely obsolete doesn’t mean the world is better off without them.

An Olivetti Studio 46 typewriter that belonged to Octavia E. Butler. As the author recalled: "I wrote my first ten books on a manual typewriter." Chris Gunn Octavia E. Butler didn’t like to wait ...