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As we look back at our international reporters' most memorable stories of the last year, we revisit the story of an important typewriter.  It was  recently discovered in a basement in upstate New York ...

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 ...

A book documents how typewriters have been used to create astonishing works of graphic art for more than a century. One quality that seems to define humanity isn’t just its compulsion to create art, ...

ARLINGTON (CBS) - The pandemic has changed the way we live. Remote learning. Work from home. Zoom calls all day long. A lot of people are yearning for life to be more simple. That has made a low tech ...

[Chris Gregg] had a dream. He wanted to convert use a typewriter as a printer. Sure this has been done before, but [Chris] wanted to create his own version. He picked up a 60’s era Smith Corona ...

While Tom Hanks was receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom yesterday, a fan of his got a surprise gift in the mail. The actor, who has never been shy about expressing his love of typewriters, ...

A typewriter that paints? Artist Tyree Callahan modified this 1937 Underwood Standard typewriter to do just that, replacing each key with a different hue that can paint on paper. A chromatic ...

I woke up Wednesday, drank some coffee, and learned (thank you, Frank Morris and Morning Edition) that it was the 100 th anniversary of William S. Burroughs' birth. Burroughs was born in St. Louis and ...

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 ...