Editing Typewriter (section)

==== Frontstriking ====
[[File:Daugherty typewriter (Martin Howard Collection).jpg|thumb|Daugherty typewriter, 1893]]

In most of the early typewriters, the typebars struck upward against the paper and pressed against the bottom of the [[platen]] ([[#Understrike|understrike]]), so the typist could not see the text as it was typed.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Lyons |first1=Martyn |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mhUwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA205 |title=Approaches to the History of Written Culture: A World Inscribed |last2=Marquilhas |first2=Rita |date=2017 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-319-54136-5 |language=en}}</ref> What was typed was not visible until a carriage return caused it to scroll into view.

The difficulty with any other arrangement was ensuring the typebars fell back into place reliably when the key was released. This was eventually achieved with various ingenious mechanical designs and so-called "visible typewriters" which used frontstriking, in which the typebars struck forward against the front side of the platen, which became standard. One of the first front-strike typewriters was the Daugherty Visible, introduced in 1893.