On its own, the sound of a manual typewriter is almost musical. The percussion of the keys being depressed, the ding and the scratch of the carriage as it's pushed back to its starting point all work ...

Those of us working office jobs know how quiet it can get — headphones go on and the subtle clicking of modern keyboards fades away. It would seem such a setup makes for solid productivity, but The ...

An orchestra of typewriters that performs everything from classical to metal? Yup. And they're coming to Milwaukee during Qwertyfest! OnMilwaukee is a proud sponsor of QWERTYFEST MKE.The sounds a ...

Robert Siegel speaks to Patrick Kidd, the editor of The Times Diary, about the sounds of mechanical typewriters piped into the newsroom of The Times in London. The idea is that the sounds will ...

Tom Hanks’ name can do more than sell a movie, it seems. His recently launched, hipster-ish typewriter app for iPad, Hanx Writer, has now shot to the top of the iTunes App Store, ranking No. 1 in both ...

ZEELAND, Mich. (AP) – Their hard drives didn’t crash and they didn’t allow access to questionable material. Just two of the traits of the old-fashioned typewriter, now long gone by the wayside in ...

I grew up on a manual typewriter, the same one my mom used to write articles for Life Magazine in the ’50s and ’60s. It was a small portable in a beat-up canvas case, and you had to hit the keys hard.