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Adler typewriter company

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The Adler company, was established in 1896 and originally made bicycles,auto-mobiles, and motorcycles. Later on, the company was merged with the Triumph-Werke Company to form the TA Triumph-Adler AG company. In order to boost revenue and production, Triumph-Adler determined to enter the printing industry by producing typewriters for small and large businesses, as well as homes.The very first typewriter made by Adler, was called the "Empire" which was released in 1898.and caused quite a sensation with its push-rod mechanism that ensured an easy-to-use typeface. One year later, Adler released its most popular model, the Adler 7 or Model 7 in 1899.The model 7 was almost identical but with several improvements of the original model.The type bars were allowed to move back and force across a reinforced plate made of steel. This motion allowed for precisely straight lines of text and also provided a high stroking power. This typewriter, with its steel 'Adler" eagle emblem on the outer covering, is still considered one of the greatest typewriters ever released to the public. Not much else is known about the Adler company, but in the 1950's Adler produced another model of a typewriter which it's name is unknown at the moment, but the typewriter is described as huge, heavy duty, "and was extremely precise and having smooth key action" according to www.vintagetypewriterjewelrey.com. Apparently the model was marketed to families who wanted a affordable, but quality typewriter to use for school, work, and other tasks.The Adler company built it’s highly successful line of typewriters on US inventor Wellington Parker Kidder's original design. Following the company's research into Kidder's design, Adler began to create its own version of the typewriter with much more success than Kidder received during his career in the typewriter industry.Adler began a design that would eventually yield the thrust-action typewriter. They introduced the Klein Adler and Klein Adler 2 versions of the typewriter. These machines were much lighter and more portable than the original Model 7. The Adler 8 was the company's next product and was a full-sized office machine. This typewriter was a prototype for the much more common Adler 11, which featured two double shifts and contained six characters on each of the machine's type bars. This allowed the user to write in two entirely distinct typefaces. In 1909, the company began working on the Adler 15. Although research and development had begun, the machine was not built until 1923, fourteen years after the original development began. The Adler 15 begins to replicate many of the more modern versions of the typewriter, and even our modern computer keyboards. The model 15 contained four rows of keys and a single shift. The machine was really only one step away from introducing the regular font strike typewriters that the company would produce for the remainder of its lifetime. The final model that Adler produced was extremely successful, and was produced until the company was forced out of business in 1995. One interesting thing to note about the Adler typewriters, is that the line space and carriage return features were located on the side of the carriage, rather than on the bottom. This was very difficult for users to deal with, and is one of the main reasons that the line space button is featured at the bottom of most keyboards and typewriters. Adler typewriters were proven to stand the tests of many years, including the Great Depression and two World Wars. Users were always satisfied with the functioning of the Adler typewriters, and some of them were still in use over 50 years after production.