It was a low-priced typewriter belonging to the variety of the Hall, Graphic, etc., which overcame the previously developed shortcomings of such machines in their invisible writing and lack of manifolding power. The Edelmann employed a type-wheel for printing. Its keyboard could not really be called such, as it was arranged in two straight printed rows in front of the machine, before which was a notched scale into which the handle was inserted in location of the characters. The machine was gradually improved and later brought out with many modern features, the first one dating from 1897. A. Greef & Co., Frankfort a.M., were identified with the undertaking and although made by Wernicke, Edelmann & Co. of Berlin, the Edelmann was later in the hands of J. Pintsch A-G., of Frankfurt a.M., Germany.