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

After 45 years, owner Tom Furrier is retiring. To celebrate his decades in business, he held a final "type-in" for more than ...

When a key is pressed, it strikes a crossbar in the frame of the typewriter. With a single ADC chip and a Raspberry Pi, [Russell] can determine which key was pressed and use that information to ...

Using a typewriter is a rich sensory experience, from the feel of the keys under your fingers that even the clickiest of PC keyboards can’t compare with, to the weirdly universal sound of the ...

“I remember at the time thinking … ‘I wonder how long it’s going to be before nobody’s using typewriters.' And I figured it might be 10 years,” he said. “It was like three year ...

The most difficult part about assembling Royal typewriters are the ball bearings. Here I'm using a drinking straw to insert them into the proper placement along the carriage rail. Another tricky ...

A University of Kansas student is preserving a piece of the past through his growing typewriter repair business. Jonathan ...

for him to use. Soboroff might have allowed Pitt to bang away on Harold Robbins’ or Mae West’s machines, he said, but Hemingway’s typewriter was sacred. “At that time, I could have used ...

Even in the year 2025, a century and a half after the first commercially successful typewriter was introduced to the American public, surprising numbers of people in the US are still using these ...