As we look back at our international reporters' most memorable stories of the last year, we revisit the story of an important ...

An electric typewriter is a rare and wonderful thrift store find, and even better if it still works. Unfortunately, there’s not as much use for these electromechanical beauties, so if you find one, ...

The world’s first typewriter goes to auction in Köln (Germany) on 22 March 2025. Just 35 Malling Hansen Writing Balls remain, 30 are in museums and the battle for one of the few remaining specimens ...

James Cook creates wonderful artworks using manual typewriters, and more and more people are becoming interested in them. His works are very accurate and precise, featuring people, architecture, still ...

At least 250 typewriters, manual and electric and carrying a variety of brand names, are being removed from a downtown store ...

ARLINGTON - For the past 45 years, Tom Furrier has mastered the craft of restoring, reviving, and selling typewriters in his shop in Arlington, Massachusetts. Now, he's retiring. The Cambridge ...

QUESTION How were the first typewriter keys arranged and designed — and who is credited with the first machine? The first typewriter patent was issued to Henry Mill, an Englishman, in 1713 but it does ...

In 1956, IBM built a typewriter factory off of New Circle Road, where it would manufacture the Selectric typewriter.

Twenty years ago, Martin Quezada was told the end was nigh. The sun was setting on the typewriter. Computers were king. Twenty years later, Quezada’s shop, International Office Machines in San Gabriel ...

Last month, NPR asked listeners and readers and a Harvard professor what technologies have stuck around a little too long. He's talking about the QWERTY layout — in use since the earliest typewriters.