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 and won reader polls at the time." In his biography of the author, "Bare-Faced Messiah" (1987), Russell Miller characterized "Typewriter in the Sky" as one of Hubbard's works which "would come to be regarded as classics", along with "Fear" and "Final Blackout". In a biography of Hubbard written by Kent State University professor Donald M. Hassler in "The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction" (1988), he noted, ""Typewriter in the Sky" (1940/1951), which anticipates plot gimmicks now popular among experimental metafictionists, ought to be taken seriously by the critics who will evaluate his strange genius". In a review upon the 1995