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 his own imagination, to populate them, and to destroy them. The clearest example of this divine power of the author appears in "Typewriter in the Sky" (1940)". Urban notes that the “theme of superior men or supermen” in works like Typewriter in the Sky is continued in Dianetics and Scientology. Writing in the October 1951 issue of "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction", Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas wrote favorably of "Typewriter in the Sky", and characterized it as "an entertaining adventure-farce badly in need of editing". Reviewing the same edition, Groff Conklin termed it "a silly idea