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
Typewriter in the Sky still reread with pleasure". George Malko noted in "" (1970) that "Typewriter in the Sky" was "eagerly welcomed by devoted fans". Michael Ashley wrote in "Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction" (1978), ""Typewriter in the Sky" (1940) is a rollicking farce of a man written into another's story". Everett F. Bleiler found it to be "a routine adventure story carried through competently, with a good central idea". Janrae Frank of "The Washington Post" commented, "Much of his best work of the '40s and '50s, "Fear", "Slaves of Sleep", "Typewriter in the Sky", is written in exactly the same style