Typewriter Crossword

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  1. 4. First machine to employ a full keyboard with separate keys for uppercase, lowercase, numerals, and symbols
  2. 5. Danish inventor responsible for the Writing Ball
  3. 6. Robust German machines produced in East Germany following the post-war factory division
  4. 7. Early proportional-spacing system developed for typesetting rather than office correspondence
  5. 8. Accounted for roughly half of German production in the early 1960s and ranked among the world's three largest makers by the early 1970s
  6. 9. American firm founded in January 1904 as a producer of office machines
  7. 12. British producer based in Leicester, England
  8. 13. Employed a type-shuttle and hammer system allowing interchangeable typefaces, including mathematical and foreign characters
  9. 15. Produced by Wanderer-Werke beginning in 1903–1904; the firm also built bicycles, motorcycles, cars, and machine tools
  10. 17. Gained attention for a 1909 model designed by Richard W. Uhlig and marketed as a budget-priced standard visible machine
  11. 18. Employed typebars that struck upward in a motion likened to grasshopper legs
  12. 19. German marque predating use of the name for automobiles
  13. 20. Design with the platen centered and two opposing fans of typebars at the front and rear
  14. 23. Design featuring type mounted on a horizontally oriented type cylinder
  15. 24. Italian-produced machines that are comparatively rare and generally regarded as inferior in typing quality to Olivetti
  16. 25. 19th-century American portable weighing under five pounds and built with fewer than 250 parts
  17. 26. Manufactured in Milan by Industrial Dattilografica from 1931 until acquisition by Olivetti in the early 1960s
  18. 28. Financier and promoter behind the first commercially successful typewriter
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  1. 1. Index machine using a rectangular chart of 84 characters arranged in seven rows
  2. 2. Italian firm distinguished by the integration of industrial design and engineering
  3. 3. Founded in 1896 in Nuremberg; originally produced bicycles before office machines
  4. 4. First commercially successful design to use a single type element
  5. 8. Manufactured in the United States from the mid-1890s until 1928; production continued in England until 1959, with over one million machines made
  6. 10. Company that established the commercial standard for modern writing machines
  7. 11. Early portable keyboard machine featuring an interchangeable typewheel and ink applied by roller
  8. 14. Manufacturer involved in litigation over a portable design; company later dissolved
  9. 16. Manufacturer known for both typewriters and hammerless double-barreled shotguns in the late 19th century
  10. 21. Swedish machines noted for factory lubrication using cod oil
  11. 22. Credited with producing the first widely successful modern visible-writing design
  12. 27. Design in which typebars swing inward from the sides toward the front of the platen