Handwriting engages more areas of the brain than typing, which leads to deeper learning, better memory and stronger cognitive ...

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 ...

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 ...

When writing instructor Fred Durbin assigned his students to type letters to Tom Hanks on vintage typewriters, he hoped to teach them about deliberate writing. What he didn't expect was for the ...

“Handwriting was initially the first means of preserving information that was previously only passed down orally,” explains Donica. Before the invention of the printing press, copying information or ...

Oblation Papers & Press co-owner Ron Rich (second from left) talks with Cindy Bilotti (second from right), who, with her son, Ben, bought a refurbished Czechoslovakian Consul typewriter during the ...

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 ...