The Chicago Model Number One typewriter was manufactured from the 1880s until 1917 in Chicago and Galesburg by the Chicago Writing Machine Company (later named the Galesburg Writing Machine Company).

Richard Polt is a professor at Xavier University who penned the "bible" for typewriter enthusiasts called "The Typewriter Revolution." He's giving a free talk at QWERTYFEST MKE. OnMilwaukee is the ...

Shane and Amanda Byrne are the owners of Clickety Clack Typewriters, a new store in Rolla, Missouri, that sells and services old typewriters and is fostering a community of fellow enthusiasts. While ...

In this quiet shop in Southeast Portland, the room filled with these metal machines of yesteryear, for me it's the connection to the word. Anthony Volopi opened TypeSpace 4 years ago and saw success ...

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 ...