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 the best fantasy produced in this century". A review of the book upon its 1995 re-release in the "Spartanburg Herald-Journal" characterized the story as both fantasy and science fiction, calling it a "classic science fiction fantasy adventure"; and placed it within the Golden Age of Science Fiction. "St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers" (1996) called the story "Hubbard's most successful fiction". Marco Frenschkowski wrote in a 1999 article for the "Marburg Journal of Religion" in a bibliography of L. Ron Hubbard, and called "Typewriter in the Sky": " Classic fantasy tale about a man who discovers he is part