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- Linotype Composing Machine, circa 1915 - Invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler in 1886, the Linotype machine revolutionized the printing industry. Instead of setting individual pieces of type by hand, printers operated the Linotype's keyboard to assemble a mould of an entire line of type. The machine then cast the entire line in type metal and printers assembled individual lines of type into full pages.
- circa 1915
- Collections - Artifact
Linotype Composing Machine, circa 1915
Invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler in 1886, the Linotype machine revolutionized the printing industry. Instead of setting individual pieces of type by hand, printers operated the Linotype's keyboard to assemble a mould of an entire line of type. The machine then cast the entire line in type metal and printers assembled individual lines of type into full pages.
- Linotype Composing Machine, circa 1923 - Invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler in 1886, the Linotype machine revolutionized the printing industry. Instead of setting individual pieces of type by hand, printers operated the Linotype's keyboard to assemble a mould of an entire line of type. The machine then cast the entire line in type metal and printers assembled individual lines of type into full pages.
- circa 1923
- Collections - Artifact
Linotype Composing Machine, circa 1923
Invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler in 1886, the Linotype machine revolutionized the printing industry. Instead of setting individual pieces of type by hand, printers operated the Linotype's keyboard to assemble a mould of an entire line of type. The machine then cast the entire line in type metal and printers assembled individual lines of type into full pages.
- Typograph Composing Machine, 1907-1912 - In 1884, the labor of hand-setting type was reduced with the introduction of hot-type composing machines. A QWERTY keyboard on the Typograph was used to assemble one full line of type. The machine cast the type in metal, and printers assembled lines into full pages. The Typograph factored into a "linecaster war," threatened with patent infringement upon the Mergenthaler Linotype.
- 1907-1912
- Collections - Artifact
Typograph Composing Machine, 1907-1912
In 1884, the labor of hand-setting type was reduced with the introduction of hot-type composing machines. A QWERTY keyboard on the Typograph was used to assemble one full line of type. The machine cast the type in metal, and printers assembled lines into full pages. The Typograph factored into a "linecaster war," threatened with patent infringement upon the Mergenthaler Linotype.