One hundred and fifty years ago this week, the St Helens Newspaper published an article hailing a new invention, writes Stephen Wainwright.

Manson Whitlock worked fixing typewriters until two months before his death . (Image via Yale University) Does anybody even use a typewriter anymore? Obviously someone does, because Manson Whitlock ...

Actor Tom Hanks is a typewriter enthusiast, and it’s an open secret among the typewriter community that Hanks will respond to any letter written on a typewriter, Spence says. (Spence is proof of this, ...