Editing Carriage return (section)

==Typewriters==

[[File:Underwoodfive.jpg|thumb|[[Underwood Typewriter Company|Touchmaster Five]] with carriage return lever at left]]
Originally, the term "carriage return" referred to a mechanism or lever on a [[typewriter]]. For machines where the type element was fixed and the paper held in a moving ''carriage'', this lever was on the left attached to the moving carriage, and operated after typing a line of text to cause the carriage to return to the far right so the type element would be aligned to the left side of the paper. The lever would also usually ''feed'' the paper to advance to the next line.

Many electric typewriters such as [[IBM Electric typewriter|IBM Electric]] or [[Underwood Typewriter Company|Underwood]] Electric made carriage return to be another key on the keyboard instead of a lever. The key was usually labeled "carriage return", "return", or "power return". With typewriters like the [[Selectric]], where the type element moved when typing and the paper was held stationary, the key returned the type element to the far left and the term "'''carrier return'''" was sometimes used for this function.

To improve the keyboard for non-English-speakers, the symbol ↵ ([[Unicode|U]]+21B5, [[HTML entity]] <code>&amp;crarr;</code>) was introduced to communicate the combined carriage return and line feed action.