After graduating from Brown University, Thurber took a teaching role at Worcester Latin Grammar School, before becoming a ...

The old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words is not actually as old as you might think. It was coined in 1921 by ...

ARLINGTON - For the past 45 years, Tom Furrier has mastered the craft of restoring, reviving, and selling typewriters in his shop in Arlington, Massachusetts. Now, he's retiring. The Cambridge ...

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 ...

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 ...

As we look back at our international reporters' most memorable stories of the last year, we revisit the story of an important ...

On March 1, 1873, the Remington company started making the first commercially-successful typewriter, marketed as the Sholes and Glidden (or Remington No. 1) typewriter. Unlike other attempts at a ...

— -- BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Steve Soboroff still becomes awestruck when he thinks about how he got here. As he stands in a museum surrounded by 33 typewriters that were owned by some of the ...

The typewriter is, among things, an archetype of today’s computers. But while computers are increasingly products of our disposable consumer culture – assumed and built to be upgraded often – ...

Reporting from Beijing — For more than a century, Chinese typewriters have been objects of curiosity, confusion and even a fair bit of ridicule — after all, how do you type a language that has no ...

In 1956, IBM built a typewriter factory off of New Circle Road, where it would manufacture the Selectric typewriter.