MANUAL TYPEWRITERS may be anachronisms in a touch-screen world, but they are experiencing a renaissance of sorts, and not only among writers arched over their desks like commas. While the comeback has ...

If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. The clickety-clack of manual typewriters have long been replaced by PC keyboards and even that is now ...

Tom Hanks, the two-time Academy Award-winning actor and cultural icon, recently gifted an autographed 1950s manual typewriter to Philly Typewriter, a preservation and restoration shop in East Passyunk ...

For most of us, the clickety clack of a manual typewriter – or the gentler tapping of the IBM Selectric – are but memories, if we’ve heard them at all. But at the few remaining typewriter repair shops ...

Reports that the last typewriter factory in the world has shut down apparently are just one more byproduct of the misinformation age, a story twittered around the world unencumbered by facts. What is ...

TORONTO (Reuters) - A new app for the iPad aims to recreate the nostalgic sense of typing on a manual typewriter, but ramped up to meet the demands of digital-age word processing. The brainchild of ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - He’s only 42, but handyman Kirk Jackson has always been an old-school guy who loves old stuff. He collects old oil lamps and old coins. He fixes and preserves old furniture and ...

Nostalgic newspaper reports around the globe lamented the death of the typewriter recently, as Indian manufacturer Godrej and Boyce announced its intentions to pull the plug on its Mumbai factory.

STRATHAM — With a degree in civil engineering Murray Segal has worked over the years as a consultant in transportation planning, traffic safety and accident reconstruction. Most recently, he has used ...

Britain's Daily Mail reports that an Indian company based in Mumbai will no longer make manual typewriters. Godrej and Boyce was believed to be the last company in the world making manual typewriters.