CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. These records document primarily the history of typeface development at the Mergenthaler Linotype Company of Baltimore, Maryland. The company ...

Fifty years ago last week, in the Park Row composing room of the New York Tribune, a bearded young German machinist named Ottmar Mergenthaler sat at an odd machine which looked like a cross between a ...

The linotype machine, invented in 1886 by Ottmar Mergenthaler, revolutionized typesetting and with it the newspaper industry. The machine operator used a 90-character keyboard to assemble groups of ...

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Today’s History Nugget is about the early history of newspapers in Fairbanks and the arrival of the first Mergenthaler Linotype machine from Dawson City in 1904. In those days nothing was easy and ...

In 1886, Ottmar Mergenthaler invented a machine that could create an entire line of type at once. It was called the linotype and it revolutionized... Long Before The Internet, The Linotype Sped Up The ...

Growing up, George Mergenthaler lived a charmed life. He was a good-looking Princeton graduate who was the only child of an affluent family in Rye worth millions. His grandfather was the inventor of ...

As part of a new tech segment, we're occasionally going to be looking at a concept, invention or tool that's altered the way the world works. To start things off, we asked Doug Wilson, director of ...