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 ...

The Sholes and Glidden typewriter came to market in 1874, manufactured by E. Remington & Sons, which was then expanding its offerings after a lucrative spell manufacturing firearms for the Union.

Computers and smartphones might be where most writing is done these days, but typewriters still have work to do in the US. Pretty much every day, another customer clutching an old typewriter will ...

MACHINES. IT’S BEEN SAID THAT THE CLACKING OF THE TYPEWRITER IS MUSIC TO A WRITER’S EARS, AND FOR 45 YEARS, BUM BUM BUM BUM. IT’S BEEN TOM FURRIER’S JOB TO MAKE SURE THOSE KEYS STAY IN TUNE.