From 12-Year-Old ‘Violin Genius’ to Typewriter History Pathfinder: The Michael Adler Story

Typewriter historian Michael Adler as a 12-year-old "violin genius", in Sydney in 1947. When The Sydney Morning Herald reviewed Michael Adler’s first typewriter history, it said The Writing Machine was “an authoritative book on a subject on which surprisingly little information is available”. This was in February 1974, a time when manual typebasket machines were already well on the way toward…