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 ...

Students at Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School got a special treat, all for trying something different. Mr. Frederic Durbin introduced an analog writing class to his workload this year.

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 ...