Typewriter the first major typewriter with these features. However, older "nonvisible" models continued in production to as late as 1915. A significant innovation was the shift key, introduced with the Remington No. 2 in 1878. This key physically "shifted" either the basket of typebars, in which case the typewriter is described as "basket shift", or the paper-holding carriage, in which case the typewriter is described as "carriage shift". Either mechanism caused a different portion of the typebar to come in contact with the ribbon/platen. The result is that each typebar could type two different characters, cutting the number of keys and
Royal Typewriter Company a cheaper model. A Royal typewriter is a large story element in Stephen King's novel "Misery". "60 Minutes" correspondent Morley Safer was known to write all of his scripts on a Royal typewriter. A Royal typewriter with a Prestige Elite typeface was one of the items found at Zodiac suspect Arthur Leigh Allen's apartment, matching the typewriter the Zodiac killer used to write letters sent to the Riverside Police Department. Jessica Fletcher used a Royal typewriter to write her novels. Mason Williams threw a Royal Model X typewriter out of a speeding car driven by Ed Ruscha for their art