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 ...

Until word processing software and printers using word processors (word processors) and PCs became popular, the main way to create documents was "handwriting" or "typewriter". When typing a key, a ...

While the keyboard itself hasn't changed much over the years (unless you're using one of those funky ergonomic keyboards), typing rules have. In fact, here are several Baby Boomer typing rules that ...

CBS News recently ran a story about a resurgence in manual typewriters. Apparently, they're a thing -- who knew? My recollection of manual typewriters is as something hated and to be avoided, but for ...

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 ...

After graduating from Brown University, Thurber took a teaching role at Worcester Latin Grammar School, before becoming a ...