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 of someone else's imagination." Writing in "A Short History of Fantasy" (2009), authors Farah Mendlesohn and Edward James characterized the book as "The best of Hubbard's stories" and noted that it "is better seen as a rationalized fantasy". In a 2009 article on Hubbard's writings, "Booklist" classed "Typewriter in the Sky" and "Fear" as among classics within science fiction and fantasy. Alexei Panshin and Cory Panshin wrote in "The World Beyond the Hill: Science Fiction and the Quest for Transcendence" (1989), ""Typewriter in the Sky" can be understood as an old-fashioned alien exploration story, with a new basis of transfer