Ford Typewriter Ford Typewriter The Ford typewriter was an early prototype typewriter introduced in 1895 by Eugene A. Ford, who later became chief development engineer at IBM (no relation to Henry Ford who founded the Ford Motor Company). It was a commercial failure and only a few were manufactured. Unlike many competing typewriters of this time, it was a forward-striking machine, meaning the hammer struck forward against the paper which was held against the platen roller, instead of up from underneath. This allowed the typist to see the text as it was typed, which was not possible in most other typewriters of
Typewriter in the Sky the Obie Award-winning 2007 satirical musical written by Kyle Jarrow, "A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant". Westfahl subsequently likened the 2009 television series "FlashForward" to the story, writing: "one can even regard "FlashForward" as a form of metaliterature involving characters in a work of fiction who discover that they are characters in a work of fiction being pushed toward a particular fate, with predecessors that include L. Ron Hubbard’s ['Typewriter in the Sky" (1940) and the film "Stranger Than Fiction" (2006)". Typewriter in the Sky Typewriter in the Sky is a science fiction novel by American writer L. Ron