linotype

• “The linotype is the favorite composing machine for newspapers and is also widely used in typesetting for books, though the monotype is preferred by book printers.”

  The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest

• “This machine is called a linotype because it casts a whole line of type at a time.”

  Makers of Many Things

• “Mae Ryan Working the linotype machine late at night at Brooklyn's Woodside Press.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The City Sleeps

• “The author is hardly a sideline observer, having labored as a reporter and editor at the Rocky Mountain News, Daily Camera, Detroit Free Press and elsewhere since the days of the linotype machine.”

  The Huffington Post: Bob Wells: Why We Cancelled All the Newspapers

• “I personally think the old linotype machine at the Post's entrance is dinosaur enough.”

  The Washington Post: The Year of the T. Rex?

• “If enough users switch to mobile smart phone or tablet devices, and cloud computing emerges as the way to connect to data as well as to applications, PCs and local servers may disappear the way linotype machines did when computerized printing came in.”

  Forbes: Stop Focusing On Your Core Business

• “She grew up in Washington, where her father was a newspaper linotype operator, and with her siblings began appearing on the vaudeville circuit as the Seven Little Eatons.”

  The Washington Post: Ziegfeld Chorus Girl Dies at 106

• “Nothing but the intervention of the linotype machine — or rather, of the kind of men who operate it — made it possible to print these books.”

  A Different Stripe:

• “This is a man who owns a working 1938 Model 8 linotype machine.”

  Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » How Books Were Made

• “The complaisant and affectionate nature of very complicated and very simple machines, like the tractor or the linotype, for example, induced him to reflect that the good in mankind was so contagious that it infected metal.”

  Vladimir Nabokov, Glory (1932, 1971)

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