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
Boston Typewriter Orchestra appears in the documentary California Typewriter and their song "Entropy Begins at the Office" has been used in promotional ads for the film The Post. Boston Typewriter Orchestra The Boston Typewriter Orchestra (BTO) is a collective percussion ensemble for typewriter and voice based in the Boston area. It was founded in 2004. One night in 2004, Boston-area artist Tim Devin was presented with the gift of a child's typewriter at a bar. His typing eventually annoyed the waitress who asked him to stop, whereupon he responded "It's OK, ma'am. I'm the conductor of the Boston Typewriter Orchestra". Thinking there was