Last fall, I brought my 1918 Royal manual typewriter into my Communicating Science to the Public class at MIT. I kept a box over the machine and unveiled it at the start of class as though revealing a ...

NEENAH - Thirteen-year-old Daisy Pupp had never seen a typewriter in person before she sat down to type a letter Thursday at the Neenah Public Library's Type-Out. Pupp didn't know how to insert or ...

Back in the mid-1950s, I decided to take an elective course in typing while a student at Sulzberger Junior High School. Now, I cannot tell you why I took this course. After all, it was not a course ...

I was born on the cusp of the transition from typewriter to computer. Some of my older friends would take typing classes during the summer break. Some of them even considered it a career option. Many ...

For those who know me, it’s no secret that I enjoy perusing the classifieds for yard or estate sales. But, a recent online visit to the local Craigslist site led to the purchase of a manual typewriter ...

You probably won't see it listed on your wall calendar or desk journal, but today is an unofficial holiday to honor a mechanical device that... Jun 23, 2017 — You probably won't see it listed on your ...

For most of us, the clickety-clack of a manual typewriter — or the gentler tapping of the IBM Selectric — are but memories, or something seen only in movies. But at the few remaining typewriter repair ...

A candy apple red Olivetti manual typewriter, circa 1960s — its keys white like the stripe splashed across the Corvette convertible of the same shade and era — draws you into Kensington Office ...

Tom Hanks, the two-time Academy Award-winning actor and cultural icon, recently gifted an autographed 1950s manual typewriter to Philly Typewriter, a preservation and restoration shop in East Passyunk ...