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 Weekly" posited that the book's author Fredric Brown may have been influenced by Hubbard's story. Umberto Rossi wrote in "The Twisted Worlds of Philip K. Dick" (2011) that writer Philip K. Dick was likely influenced by "Typewriter in the Sky". Rossi noted "Typewriter in the Sky" came out in a paperback format in 1951, and a year later Dick succeeded in getting his first short story, the tale "Beyond Lies the Wub" published. Rossi said "Typewriter in the Sky" was "the text that admittedly inspired" "The Cosmic Puppets" (1957) by Philip K. Dick. In the book "Harlan Ellison's Watching" (1989),