In modern times when PCs and smart phones became popular, there are many people who have never used typewriters,A movie revealing a reaction by showing a typewriter to a childAs far as to appear.

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.

Robert Siegel speaks to Patrick Kidd, the editor of The Times Diary, about the sounds of mechanical typewriters piped into the newsroom of The Times in London. The idea is that the sounds will ...