The typewriter is one of the great inventions of the modern world. A marvel of industrial engineering and ingenuity, it revolutionized communication and was an essential tool for countless writers. To ...

Oblation Papers & Press co-owner Ron Rich (second from left) talks with Cindy Bilotti (second from right), who, with her son, Ben, bought a refurbished Czechoslovakian Consul typewriter during the ...

I recently bought a beautifully refurbished typewriter from New England Typewriter, a small but bustling shop in New ...

BEND, Ore. — Long before the advent of tablets, laptops and, heck, fax machines, the sound of clacking typewriters, with their telltale “dings” and whooshing carriage returns, filled offices across ...

Listener Jim Apfelbaum of Austin, Texas, takes us back in time as he praises the sounds of his typewriter as part of our series "SoundClips." Now another SoundClip. Listeners from around the country ...

Remember the days when you couldn't wait to get into second or third grade so you could write in cursive? Remember practicing the loops and swirls to make the capital L or the S? The Indiana ...

Which is why I ran across a class of device I never thought I'd see—smart typewriters. These expensive and limited devices ...

Curmudgeons, especially literary ones, make lively interview subjects. Remember Ray Bradbury’s declaration, on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday last month, that “we’ve got too many Internets”?

Actor Tom Hanks fulfills a two-year-old promise to Portland's Type Space by gifting a signed 1955 Rheinmetall typewriter from ...

For a half-century, she used her knowledge of handwriting, typewriters, paper and ink to investigate the veracity of checks, letters, contracts and other paperwork. By Richard Sandomir Pearl Tytell, ...