Among the old-timey sounds you’ll hear at the Los Angeles County Fair: the shrieks of people on thrill rides, calliope-style carnival music, the cluck-cluck of hens. Add an unexpected one: the ...

Lucas: I'm Lucas Dul, and I've been repairing and restoring typewriters for nearly a decade. And I'm going to show you how to restore a 90-year-old Royal typewriter. This particular machine was ...

For most of us, the clickety clack of a manual typewriter — or the gentler tapping of the IBM Selectric — are but memories, or something seen only in movies. But at the few remaining typewriter repair ...

To most people, typewriters are perhaps quaint but ultimately inert relics of a bygone age. Crafted at a time in which gears and levers could conjure something close to magic -- which typewriters darn ...

BOSTON - At most concerts, it's a traditional band or a singer that's the big draw. For the Boston Typewriter Orchestra, it's the typewriters. They use old-style typewriters to give them their ...

When the author Isaac Bashevis Singer, a Nobel laureate who wrote in Yiddish, once reflected on how he committed to his craft even when lacking ideas, he said all credit was due to his typewriter.