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 Brown may have drawn from Hubbard's tale. Umberto Rossi asserted in a book on writer Philip K. Dick that "Typewriter in the Sky" likely influenced Dick's first published short story "Beyond Lies the Wub" (1951), in addition to his novel "The Cosmic Puppets" (1957). Harlan Ellison compared it to the 1989 film "The Purple Rose of Cairo". Gary Westfahl likened the "Typewriter in the Sky" to the 2006 film "Stranger than Fiction", going so far as to suggest the two had virtually an identical narrative. The story begins in Greenwich Village, New York. The main character, Mike de Wolf, is