On its own, the sound of a manual typewriter is almost musical. The percussion of the keys being depressed, the ding and the scratch of the carriage as it's pushed back to its starting point all work ...

An orchestra of typewriters that performs everything from classical to metal? Yup. And they're coming to Milwaukee during Qwertyfest! OnMilwaukee is a proud sponsor of QWERTYFEST MKE.The sounds a ...

WASHINGTON — With movie hits including “Saving Private Ryan,” “A League of Their Own,” and “That Thing You Do!,” Tom Hanks has demonstrated a pretty good knack for recreating periods of history that ...

Robert Siegel speaks to Patrick Kidd, the editor of The Times Diary, about the sounds of mechanical typewriters piped into the newsroom of The Times in London. The idea is that the sounds will ...

Tom Hanks’ name can do more than sell a movie, it seems. His recently launched, hipster-ish typewriter app for iPad, Hanx Writer, has now shot to the top of the iTunes App Store, ranking No. 1 in both ...

I grew up on a manual typewriter, the same one my mom used to write articles for Life Magazine in the ’50s and ’60s. It was a small portable in a beat-up canvas case, and you had to hit the keys hard.

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 ...