Mergenthaler Linotype company
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Mergenthaler Linotype Company Plainview, NY; Brooklyn, NY
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Mergenthaler Linotype Company Plainview, NY; Brooklyn, NY
Mergenthaler Linotype Company Plainview, NY; New York, NY
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Mergenthaler Linotype Company Plainview, NY; New York, NY
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The period from 1825 on saw the development of composing machines that would speed the process of typesetting in the face of vastly increased demand for books in Europe and the United States. About 300 had been patented by the time Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854-1899) introduced his version in 1886. The German immigrant had worked in a Baltimore machine shop for a decade while perfecting a machine that used small brass matrixes with impressions of the letterforms, etc. and melted lead to cast slugs bearing raised lines of type. The process dominated trade and business printing in the United States for several decades.
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https://viaf.org/viaf/143463654
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