Clack! Clack! Clack-clack-clack! Zzzzzing! You don’t hear that sound much anymore – a typewriter. This is what we hear: ticka-ticka-ticka-ticka, tap-tap-tap-tap. Computers. They’re faster than ...

There's a sound you might have noticed drifting from the home offices of your colleagues, friends, or family members over the past few years, a rhythmic, satisfying click-clack that sounds less like ...

SMALLPRINT:THERE IS A BEAUTY to the typewriter. The reassuringly weighty feel of it, the sensory experience of striking spring-loaded keys and the magical clack-a-clack noise of ink hitting paper. But ...

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 ...