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 ...

Research compared students who typed lecture notes on laptops with those who wrote lecture notes by hand during the same time.

“Handwriting was initially the first means of preserving information that was previously only passed down orally,” explains Donica. Before the invention of the printing press, copying information or ...

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 ...