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 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