| The well-known story of the Adler (which is German for "eagle") began in 1898 when Heinrich Kleyer GmbH, Frankfurt, began manufacturing Wellington Parker Kidder's machine under license, which it first sold as the EMPIRE. The design was quickly improved upon, entirely separate of Kidder's concerns outside Europe, and from there the development of the ADLER, which name the machine now took, was separate. Many different models of thrust-action machine, both standard and portable, and both three-bank and four-bank were built over very many years of production. The first ADLER front-strike machines with conventional type-bars appeared in the 1930's, but production of the thrust-action design continued in certain models beyond this, so that there was an overlap. |
