June 23 is National Typewriter Day, which celebrates the 1st commercially successful typewriter — which was patented by ...

I actually collect, repair and regularly use manual typewriters. It’s a fascinating hobby. The precision machining that went into them is stunningly elegant, even for the lower-end machines.

Manual typewriters are back, and they're all the retro rage. This article contains stories from leading technology journalists about their relationship with manual typewriters.

The Daily Mail focused on the end of typewriter production by India's Godrej and Boyce. But as this Two-Way post from July 2009 shows , New Jersey's Swintec has been doing a very good business in ...

Battery-free, totally cordless and fun to use, manual typewriters are useful even in a touch-screen world. Plus: the best sources for a refurbished Olivetti, Remington, Underwood and other makes.

The Unabomber, though, used a manual typewriter. “This may be a McLuhanesque situation, where the medium is the message,” said Peter Tytell, an expert in document work.

He has more than 220 manual typewriters scattered all over his house and in his work shed. "I can't deny there's an obsession with it. There absolutely is," he said, shrugging.

Celebrities — including actor and typewriter enthusiast Tom Hanks — writers, collectors and anyone who wants to own a reminder of simpler times have been the key to Schweitzer's success at ...

The shop repairs, maintains and sells mostly manual typewriters, returning them to "as close to factory new as possible," Rhoda said.

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Eudora Welty’s portable manual typewriter is on display at the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson. “It’s a quiet deluxe model made by the Royal Typewriter Company.

Store owner Matt Snyder works on a manual typewriter at New England Typewriter in Merrimack on Saturday, November 16, 2024. Snyder opened it to sell and service devices that are decades old.

Oring types the messages verbatim on a manual typewriter, as she is here in Philadelphia at a February performance. But "Writer's Block" isn't Oring's only typewriter-related work.