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. 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. Once each semester, Grit Matthias Phelps, a German language ...

Grit Matthias Phelps, who teaches German at Cornell, brings typewriters into the classroom once a semester. The purpose of going old school is to have her students experience what it is like to write ...

When singer songwriter John Mayer talks about keys, it's not always about music. Sometimes it's about the typewriter he uses. Tom Hanks not only uses one, he's collected about 100 of them. Mayer and ...

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 ...

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Inside the small Cambridge Typewriter Co. storefront in Arlington, there is barely space to move around. Nearly every surface — the floor, shelves, desks and windowsills — is covered with typing ...

Tom Furrier still remembers his first day on the job at Cambridge Typewriter 45 years ago. His friend’s dad, who owned the store, asked Furrier to work on a Smith Corona 2200. By the end of the day, ...

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 ...