A historian went down an 18-year rabbit hole in search of obsolete machines. But there was one he thought he’d never find.

For some of us who type all day for a living, the world is too quiet. We pine for the whir of the Xerox machine, the rattle of rotary telephones, the clackety-clack of the typewriter.

Floading uses a typewriter every day, she says, to make lists or write letters, and for office admin. "There it is, you wrote three pages, boom, done. That's kind of lost on the laptop," she says.

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. ANNE JANSEN Age • 46 Family • Single Home • Marthasville What she makes • Jewelry and accessories from old typewriter ...

The top row of keys is symbols and the second row is the numbers. George W.N. Yost worked with a variety of early typewriting companies including Remington and Caligraph before starting his own ...