For two weeks in March 1939, as Hitler completed his annexation of Czechoslovakia and Europe braced for war, a lurid murder trial captivated Paris. Eugen Weidmann, a German drifter, had killed six ...

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 ...

When singer songwriter John Mayer talks about keys, it's not always about music. Sometimes it's about the typewriter he uses. Tom Hanks not only uses one, he's collected about 100 of them. Mayer and ...

Once a semester, a Cornell University instructor requires her students to complete an in-class assignment using typewriters — ...

In New York City, there’s still at least one place left untouched by modern tech. At Gramercy Typewriter Co., there isn’t a screen in sight — the most advanced piece of technology may just be the ...

Tom Furrier, owner of Cambridge Typewriter. Photography by Nathan Bajar Tom Furrier still remembers his first day at the Cambridge Typewriter Company. He was 25 years old and his friend’s dad had ...

In the 1870s, Christopher Latham Sholes and his collaborators reimagined the typewriter keyboard to solve a mechanical flaw that plagued early machines. Their QWERTY layout, designed to prevent ...

Nestled in the heart of Berkeley is a quaint little shop where the past refuses to fade. Inside, the clickety-clack of forgotten treasures is inspiring a new generation to tap into nostalgia. "They ...

When Doctor Donald Holslave's old old typewriter in the basement of the Milwaukee Public Museum, it's not out of frustration, you see, this isn't your typical office situation. likes his typewriter, ...

When you think of typewriters, what names come to mind? IBM? Smith Corona? Well, we see a lot of vintage typewriters, and the one name that comes up most often is Royal. The problem with a name like ...

The scene is right out of the 1950s with students pecking away at manual typewriters, the machines dinging at the end of each line. Once each semester, Grit Matthias Phelps, a German language ...