While we were passing a few days in Houston, catching up on stuff that we can't get done in the country, I was walking in the neighborhood early one morning when I heard a sound that's special to me.

As a child, I often woke to the sound of my mother typing. I’d hear a spatter of sound, a pause, a tentative tap or two, some silence, then more taps. With the staccato music of the typewriter coming ...

Those of us working office jobs know how quiet it can get — headphones go on and the subtle clicking of modern keyboards fades away. It would seem such a setup makes for solid productivity, but The ...

On its own, the sound of a manual typewriter is almost musical. The percussion of the keys being depressed, the ding and the scratch of the carriage as it's pushed back to its starting point all work ...

For the first time since Rupert Murdoch controversially moved his newspaper empire to Wapping in 1986, signing the death warrant for hot metal, the clattering of manual typewriters can be heard in the ...

A few years ago Tom Hanks brought his father’s old Underwood, which Hanks snr had bought at the end of the second World War, to a typewriter repair shop for a simple cleaning. When the actor collected ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

It was once ubiquitous in the office or home and now the typewriter is experiencing a rebirth thanks to the efforts of a Philadelphia engineer. Jack Zylkin, 27, has created what he calls the ‘USB ...

Tom Hanks’ name can do more than sell a movie, it seems. His recently launched, hipster-ish typewriter app for iPad, Hanx Writer, has now shot to the top of the iTunes App Store, ranking No. 1 in both ...