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Ottmar Mergenthaler

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  • In their search for an expert, a Baltimore manufacturer named Hahl, who had constructed some of these machines, was consulted, and upon his recommendation his cousin, Ottmar Mergenthaler, was selected to undertake the work, and thus the future inventor of the Linotype was discovered.

    The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing Various

  • The linotype, the invention of Ottmar Mergenthaler of Baltimore, came first; then the monotype of Tolbert Lanston, a native of Ohio.

    The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest Holland Thompson 1906

  • The 1880s saw the development of the first hot-metal machine, the Linotype, by Ottmar Mergenthaler of Baltimore, as 'its chief (though not its only progenitor)', which became viable in quantity when conjoined with the Benton punch-cutter in 1889, with 'large-scale series production' beginning in 1890 (Gaskell, 1972, pp. 274-76).

    Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand Penny Griffith 1885

  • In the 1880s, Ottmar Mergenthaler invented the Linotype machine.

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • A technological revolution occurred in 1886, when Ottmar Mergenthaler invented a machine that allowed a keyboard operator to set type much more quickly.

    unknown title 2009

  • A technological revolution occurred in 1886, when Ottmar Mergenthaler invented a machine that allowed a keyboard operator to set type much more quickly.

    unknown title 2009

  • A technological revolution occurred in 1886, when Ottmar Mergenthaler invented a machine that allowed a keyboard operator to set type much more quickly.

    unknown title 2009

  • There, a thirty-one-year-old German-born inventor, Ottmar Mergenthaler, a former watch-maker’s apprentice, had formulated a highly rational approach to the setting of type: a machine operated via a keyboard, derived from the new typewriter.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • There, a thirty-one-year-old German-born inventor, Ottmar Mergenthaler, a former watch-maker’s apprentice, had formulated a highly rational approach to the setting of type: a machine operated via a keyboard, derived from the new typewriter.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

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