The schools of shorthand and typewriting in the Eastern countries are easily the most interesting in all the world, and it is noteworthy that these schools maintain the highest standards of efficiency. The Remington schools in various cities throughout India, which train the Babu or educated native in the "twin arts," have been for many years the main source of supply of the typists employed in all branches of the Indian Government service. The founders of the typewriter business had little realization that out of their efforts would come a new plan of practical education; still less did they realize that over a great part of the earth's surface the task of developing this plan would fall on the manufacturer himself. In their broad effect on human society, the by-products of the typewriter business, in more than one phase, have been quite as important as the main idea. CHAPTER VI. HIGH SPOTS IN TYPEWRITER PROGRESS We have noted the fundamental features contained in the original typewriter of 1873. It had the step-by-step escapement mechanism which caused the letter-spacing travel of the paper carriage. It had type bars on which type were mounted which printed at a common center. It fed the paper around a cylinder on the paper carriage. It was equipped with a line spacing and carriage return mechanism. It printed through a ribbon, which traveled across the printing point with the movement of the carnage. It had the standard number of printing keys, placed in four rows, and the characters on these keys, and the corresponding type bars, followed the arrangement now known as "universal." To these fundamental features the Model 2 Remington of 1878 added the shift-key mechanism, with two type mounted on a single bar. Every one of the features above described is standard in all the leading writing machines of the present day. It must not be supposed, however, that the reign of each and all of these basic features has been undisputed throughout the entire fifty years of typewriter history. In time other typewriters appeared on the market, which represented radical departures from one or another of these principles. Some of these machines proved practical in actual service and won a considerable popularity, and some of them are manufactured and sold today. A review of typewriter history would not be complete which failed to take note of these departures from the type of construction generally known as "standard."