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