Last fall, I brought my 1918 Royal manual typewriter into my Communicating Science to the Public class at MIT. I kept a box over the machine and unveiled it at the start of class as though revealing a ...

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.

In an age of high-tech gadgets that are practically obsolete as soon as they're made, a group is celebrating a machine from an earlier, simpler time: the manual typewriter. A Philadelphia man has put ...

— -- Typewriters are back and taking the country by storm. Siri, the personal assistant on the iPhone, offers directions, dispenses advice on where to eat, and even takes dictation. Just speak to ...

In a digital age, iPad’s may reign supreme, but that doesn’t mean there’s not a market for vintage devices once used for sending messages. That’s apparent to Cambridge Typewriter shop owner Tom ...

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 ...