Update: Contrary to the original reports, it seems there are still typewriters being made in China, Japan, and Indonesia. So rather than being the death of the typewriter, this is just another nail in ...

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 ...

DANVILLE — Among the many historically relevant individuals who grew up in the Valley is a man born in Mooresburg, Chistopher Sholes, whom historians credit with inventing the first typewriter. “It ...

QWERTYFEST MKE is a 3-day festival, from Oct. 3-5, based around the origins of one of the first typewriters, which was patented in Milwaukee in 1868. This year marks a decade for this quirky ...

A historian went down an 18-year rabbit hole in search of obsolete machines. But there was one he thought he’d never find. The difficulty of designing a typewriter that can produce Chinese characters ...

For decades, the rhythmic click-clack and metallic slide of a carriage united offices, courtrooms and newsrooms everywhere. When computers took over, the typewriter was relegated to nostalgia – it was ...