As a child, I often woke to the sound of my mother typing. I’d hear a spatter of sound, a pause, a tentative tap or two, some silence, then more taps. With the staccato music of the typewriter coming ...

Those of us working office jobs know how quiet it can get — headphones go on and the subtle clicking of modern keyboards fades away. It would seem such a setup makes for solid productivity, but The ...

It was once ubiquitous in the office or home and now the typewriter is experiencing a rebirth thanks to the efforts of a Philadelphia engineer. Jack Zylkin, 27, has created what he calls the ‘USB ...

Listener Jim Apfelbaum of Austin, Texas, takes us back in time as he praises the sounds of his typewriter as part of our series "SoundClips." Now another SoundClip. Listeners from around the country ...

The sound of the typewriter has been used in many compositions. From Henry James to Jack Kerouac, the familiar clickity clack of the typewriter was like a love song that accompanied many writers' ...

On its own, the sound of a manual typewriter is almost musical. The percussion of the keys being depressed, the ding and the scratch of the carriage as it's pushed back to its starting point all work ...

The insurgence starts with the metal thwack of a key. To me, that iconic sound, that tinny typewriter sound, is aggressive, frenetic, a tiny explosion prompted by something that detonated in a ...