So goes “The Typewriter Manifesto,” a call to action that opens Dr. Richard Polt’s The Typewriter Revolution: A Typist’s Companion for the 21st Century. Polt, a Xavier University Philosophy prof by ...

I grew up on a manual typewriter, the same one my mom used to write articles for Life Magazine in the ’50s and ’60s. It was a small portable in a beat-up canvas case, and you had to hit the keys hard.

It all started with a Remington Noiseless Model 7. Richard Polt was a 12-year-old in Oakland, California, in the 1970s when his dad bought him the classic typewriter at a garage sale. Cut to 1994, ...

Angels appear to Boston dentist John Ballou Newbrough with instructions to locate a new invention: the Remington No. 2 typewriter. Through automatic writing, Newbrough produces Oahspe, which includes ...