Sholes and Glidden typewriter seeking to diversify, Remington further refined the typewriter before finally placing it on the market on July 1, 1874. During its development, the typewriter evolved from a crude curiosity into a practical device, the basic form of which became the industry standard. The machine incorporated elements which became fundamental to typewriter design, including a cylindrical platen and a four-rowed QWERTY keyboard. Several design deficiencies remained, however. The Sholes and Glidden could print only upper-case letters—an issue remedied in its successor, the Remington No. 2—and was a "blind writer", meaning the typist could not see what was being written as it
Typewriter in the Sky by Harlan Ellison, "Typewriter in the Sky" is compared to "Purple Rose of Cairo", "I bet if L. Ron Hubbard had written "Purple Rose of Cairo" they'd have given it a Hugo ... I mean, it is sort of a hip, updated version of "Typewriter in the Sky"." Gary Westfahl quoted Hubbard's work in a book of noteworthy science fiction quotations, "Science Fiction Quotations: From the Inner Mind to the Outer Limits" (2005). Writing for "Locus Online", Gary Westfahl compared the screenplay of the 2006 film "Stranger than Fiction" to Hubbard's story, and commented, "In taking its premise into this