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 ...

The world’s first typewriter goes to auction in Köln (Germany) on 22 March 2025. Just 35 Malling Hansen Writing Balls remain, 30 are in museums and the battle for one of the few remaining specimens ...

When singer songwriter John Mayer talks about keys, it's not always about music. Sometimes it's about the typewriter he uses. Tom Hanks not only uses one, he's collected about 100 of them. Mayer and ...

Typewriters aren’t really made anymore in any major quantity, since the computer kind of rained all over its inky parade. That’s not to say you can’t build one yourself though, as [Toast] did in a ...

DALLAS - "Each one of these typewriters tells a really fascinating story—not just about the person, but how they used it," said Samantha Sisler with Heritage Auction, who detailed Steven L. Soboroff's ...

STANFORD, California — Scholars in the U.S., Taiwan and China are buzzing about the discovery of an old typewriter, because the long-lost machine is part of the origin story of modern Chinese ...

Typewriters from the storied collection of actor Tom Hanks will start the new year in Sag Harbor, as Barneys creative director, author, and Shelter Island resident Simon Doonan brings to life “Some of ...

Chelsea, Manhattan -- On West 17th Street, a small shop sits stalled in time. Gramercy Typewriter Co. is the last typewriter store in Manhattan that still actively sells, reconditions, and repairs ...

The actor and typewriter enthusiast wrote back to the teens weeks after they sent off letters to him Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School Last fall, some students at the Lincoln Park Performing ...

An electric typewriter is a rare and wonderful thrift store find, and even better if it still works. Unfortunately, there’s not as much use for these electromechanical beauties, so if you find one, ...