1A typewriter — a mechanical or electric device that prints characters directly onto paper by pressing keys. Largely displaced by word processors and PCs, and effectively obsolete as an office tool; today it appears mainly as a museum piece, an antique, or in older films and novels — a retro object rather than a practical device.
祖父は若い頃、タイプライターで論文を一字ずつ打っていたそうだ。
My grandfather is said to have typed his papers character by character on a typewriter when he was young.
この博物館には明治時代から戦後にかけてのタイプライターが並んでいる。
This museum has typewriters lined up from the Meiji period through the postwar era.
古い映画のなかで、記者がタイプライターで原稿を打つ場面が好きだ。
In old movies, I love the scenes where a reporter pounds out a story on a typewriter.
アンティーク調の書斎に、飾りとして古いタイプライターを置いた。
I placed an old typewriter in my antique-style study as a decoration.