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

Despite its innovative design, the typewriter's rise to popularity was gradual, only picking up speed in 1874. The typewriter was more than a technological achievement; it was also a design ...

The '50s and '60s was the heyday for typewriter design and quality, he said. "Before then you get antiques, which look amazing. And after the '60s you get Olympias, which function very well ...

who works at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, is a big fan of typewriters. She has 62 of them. "There's something very inviting about a typewriter waiting with paper in it," she explains.