The BBC's Colin Paterson was there to witness the end of an era Continue reading the main storyRelated StoriesWhy typewriters beat computersWhy do we all use Qwerty keyboards? A typewriter, which its makers say is the last to be built in the UK, has been produced at a north Wales factory.
Manufacturer Brother, which says it has made 5.9 million typewriters since its factory in Wrexham opened in 1985, has donated the last machine to London's Science Museum.
The museum said the piece represented the end of a technology which had been "important to so many lives".
Edward Bryan, a worker at the factory since 1989, made the last typewriter.
"If people ever ask me, I can always say now, as a strange question, that I've made the last typewriter in the UK," he told BBC Breakfast's Colin Paterson.
He said he had previously "tried and succeeded to make one with my eyes closed".
'Special place'
Brother said it had stopped making typewriters in the UK because demand had fallen sharply in this country. It said that it still had significant sales in the US but its factory in the Far East produces enough typewriters to serve this market.
The company will continue to use the factory to run a recycling scheme for printer cartridges as well as to make other office technology.
UK boss Phil Jones said the typewriter still held "a special place in the hearts" of members of the public.
"Because of this, and the typewriter's importance in the history of business communication, we felt that giving it a home at the Science Museum would be a fitting tribute," he said.
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