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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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

I was born on the cusp of the transition from typewriter to computer. Some of my older friends would take typing classes during the summer break. Some of them even considered it a career option. Many ...

Then, after closing out the registers, Gustafson descends one last time to the store's lower level, the part of the bookstore stuffed with volumes on cooking and gardening, travel and history. And he ...