Grit Matthias Phelps on March 20 gives students a demonstration on how to use a typewriter before class at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. I’d seen typewriters in movies, but they don’t tell you how a typewriter works,” said Catherine Mong, 19, a freshman in Phelps’ Intro to German class. “I didn’t know there was a whole science to using a typewriter.”Like a rotary phone, the manual typewriter appears simple but is not intuitive to the smartphone generation. FEWER DISTRACTIONSThe assignment carries lessons beyond simply how to use a typewriter, which is the whole point. I told all my friends, I did a German test on a typewriter!”

Source: Taipei Times April 01, 2026 03:42 UTC