The typewriter is one of the great inventions of the modern world. A marvel of industrial engineering and ingenuity, it revolutionized communication and was an essential tool for countless writers. To ...

New research has analyzed brainwave patterns in both children and young adults while they wrote by hand and as they typed on a keyboard. The results revealed distinctly different brain patterns ...

There was a time when writing was unmistakably physical. Words didn’t simply appear on a screen; they were struck into ...

Though writing by hand is increasingly being eclipsed by the ease of computers, a new study finds we shouldn't be so quick to throw away the pencils and paper: handwriting helps people learn certain ...

BEND, Ore. — Long before the advent of tablets, laptops and, heck, fax machines, the sound of clacking typewriters, with their telltale “dings” and whooshing carriage returns, filled offices across ...

Listener Jim Apfelbaum of Austin, Texas, takes us back in time as he praises the sounds of his typewriter as part of our series "SoundClips." Now another SoundClip. Listeners from around the country ...