I'm old enough to remember coin-operated televisio...  ...s article in UCLA Magazine was that coin-operated typewriters existed. This particular model was designed in 19...  ...Powell Library at UCLA and used one of the rental typewriters for 20 cents an hour. $9.80 later, he had a funct...

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfxRfkZdiAQ]YouTube LinkIn this new Kids React video by the The Fine Bros, kids check out the ("antique," as one puts it) metal monstrosity that is a typewriter. What is its function? Wel...

A friend of typography expert Jennifer Kennard recently came across this gem from a bygone era. It’s a typewriter ball for an IBM Selectric. They were not normally packaged and sold as globes, so this is a rarity....

I miss seeing the old timey typewriters around town-the smell of the oil, the clack clack...

Swintec's 2600CC typewriter is a completely modern tool with impressive features such as an 80,000-word dictionary and correction memory. Here's your puzzle for today: why is it transparent? Make a guess, then cli...

Pastry master Patti Paige made this gingerbread typewriter which is completely edible (even the rice paper) but not functional. It's on display at the Parker Meridien Hotel in New York City to benefit the charity Cit...

Tyree Callahan modified a classic 1937 Underwood Standard typewriter by removing the letters with paint-soaked pads. When he types the right combinations, he can compose paintings. You can see a few landscapes that h...

Most people find typewriters to be a little outdated these days, but Keira Rat...

Jeremy Mayer makes ingenious and often funny sculptures out of typewriter parts. Here's one of his recent creations: a penguin. http://jemayer.tumblr.com/post/8674700147 -via Boing Boing...

The most agonizingly complex language that I'v...  ...s a necessary result of that complexity, Mandarin typewriters are sophisticated machines: As you can see, th...