Computers and smartphones might be where most writing is done these days, but typewriters still have work to do in the US.

As with all his other compositions, Leroy Anderson wrote The Typewriter for orchestra, completing the work on October 9, 1950. The Typewriter received its first performance when Leroy Anderson ...

If the machine gun fire of a buckling spring keyboard isn’t enough for you, there’s only one solution: [Russell]’s typewriter turned into a mechanical keyboard. Converting typewriters into ...

It was a Milwaukeean, Christopher Latham Sholes, who invented the first commercially successful typewriter in 1868. He also ...

Cambridge Typewriter Co. owner Tom Furrier demonstrates the use of an antique "blind" typewriter, on which the user cannot see what they are typing until they check the page, that he fixed for a ...

You never know what can be found in a famous person’s typewriter. Joe DiMaggio’s old machine contained the cutup shards of his expired bank card. Steve Soboroff, who bought the New York ...

Repairing typewriters for would-be novelists, Pulitzer Prize winners and even an occasional Hollywood A-lister has been Tom Furrier's job for decades.

A similar feeling must have accompanied another device with the original keyboard – the typewriter. Just as the early pioneers of personal computer technology recognized that they were onto something ...

Maybe an upside-down Steam logo. What do you think it looks like? The remarkably heavy Yetman Transmitting Typewriter of 1903 was a bit like a laptop of its time in that you could hook into the ...

The world’s first typewriter goes to auction in Köln (Germany) on 22 March 2025. Just 35 Malling Hansen Writing Balls remain, 30 are in museums and the battle for one of the few remaining ...

Lucas: I'm Lucas Dul, and I've been repairing and restoring typewriters for nearly a decade. And I'm going to show you how to restore a 90-year-old Royal typewriter. This particular machine was ...