Adams Company
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The Adams Company is an American manufacturing concern. It was founded in 1883 and is based in Dubuque, Iowa, United States.
This Adams-Farwell Series 6 40/45 hp touring car with a 5-cylinder engine of 490.9 cu in (8,044 cc) and coachwork by Connolly Carriage & Buggy Co. (1906) is the only known Adams-Farwell in existence. It can be driven either from the front or rear bench seat.
A modified 1907 Adams-Farwell engine powered three man-lifting experimental helicopters designed by Emile Berliner.
Emile Berliner
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Emile Berliner was a German-American inventor and businessman who invented the lateral-cut flat disc record, also known as a "gramophone record," used with a gramophone. He founded the United States G
Adams Company
…Stephen Marius Balzer of New York City, the Adams Company offered light gyrocopter engines which successfully powered experimental flying machines by Emile Berliner in 1909–1910 and J. Newton Williams in 1909. Engine production lasted longer than automobile manufacture although it is not clear when this stopped…
Emile Berliner crop
1897 Berliner Gramophone record
E. Berliner Toy Gramophone, 1889 (collection Musée des ondes Emile Berliner, Montreal)
Emile Berliner with a veiled woman