The typewriter is one of the great inventions of the modern world. A marvel of industrial engineering and ingenuity, it revolutionized communication and was an essential tool for countless writers. To ...
It was a pandemic distraction from lockdowns and languishing. I had somehow convinced myself I needed a typewriter. Locating one was easy, but I wasn't expecting to find Cincinnati eclectic Richard ...
Until word processing software and printers using word processors (word processors) and PCs became popular, the main way to create documents was "handwriting" or "typewriter". When typing a key, a ...
After graduating from Brown University, Thurber took a teaching role at Worcester Latin Grammar School, before becoming a ...
CBS News recently ran a story about a resurgence in manual typewriters. Apparently, they're a thing -- who knew? My recollection of manual typewriters is as something hated and to be avoided, but for ...
Listener Jim Apfelbaum of Austin, Texas, takes us back in time as he praises the sounds of his typewriter as part of our series "SoundClips." Now another SoundClip. Listeners from around the country ...
To answer my own headline question: to connect to the Internet! You can't get online using a typewriter (I tried but I just keep getting a "cannot connect to Internet" message on the ribbon). What I'm ...