PHILADELPHIA – How busy could a typewriter shop be in 2024, when software codes write themselves, when the siren song of artificial intelligence beckons to help us concoct better emails and explainers ...

Once a semester, a Cornell University instructor requires her students to complete an in-class assignment using typewriters — an exercise to help them understand what writing, thinking and classrooms ...

As someone who writes for a living—between 5,000 and 10,000 words every day—I'm always looking for ways to become more productive and efficient. Which is why I ran across a class of device I never ...

The scene is right out of the 1950s with students pecking away at manual typewriters, the machines dinging at the end of each line. Once each semester, Grit Matthias Phelps, a German language ...

The scene is right out of the 1950s with students pecking away at manual typewriters, the machines dinging at the end of each line. Kids are in a ‘reading recession,’ as test scores continue to ...

Student use typewriters to complete a writing assignment in German at Cornell University, Friday, March 20, 2026, in Ithaca, N.Y. The professor, Grit Matthias Phelps, brings out the typewriters once ...