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 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