In type set on the linotype machine every line is one solid piece of metal.
Dodge, the patent attorney of the parties interested in the enterprise from the beginning, and later the president of the Mergenthaler Linotype Company.
Notwithstanding this expense these Linotype machines have to-day made their way into nearly all the daily newspaper offices of the civilized world, even to Australia and the Hawaiian Islands.
In the composing rooms of the daily newspapers and the larger book printing offices we find great rows of these Linotype machines, each doing the work of from four to five men.
The most revolutionary and perhaps the most important development in the printing art of this century has been the linotype machine.
It was the Mergenthaler Linotype machine, which automatically formed its own type by casting a whole line of it at a time.
When the Linotype machine was first patented it was not regarded by printers generally as a practical machine, but only one of the many complicated, theoretical, but impracticable organizations which the Patent Office has to deal with.
The wheel is then turned with the matrices, and the metal in its slot is afterwards discharged in the form of a linotype slug, seen in Fig.
Finlay, Editor Section I--The Linotype By L.
The introduction of the linotype caused many old members to lose their employment.
Sidenote: The human body and the linotype machine compared] The linotype machine that set the matter you are now reading is composed of several thousand parts.
I found the linotype operator eager to show me how his machine works, and the foreman was glad to take me around and instruct me in his department and also in the pressroom.
Shortly after noon a linotype operator came to me with his hands full of copy.
The big press would not receive him by night, and he spent his love on his linotype by day; so he was lonesome and longed for the society of his kind.
The big press grew sulky and kept breaking the web, and his linotype took to absorbing castor-oil as if it were a kind of hasheesh.
When the linotype operator left, we gave David the place.
Inventor of the Mergenthaler Linotype machine, used in almost every printing office throughout the world.
The Linotype was the result of years of study and experimentation and represents as great an advance over hand composition as the sewing machine does over the sewing needle.
Now why I say it doesn't look like Linotype--in Linotype most of your columns or your paragraphs are butted up straight.
It would be more of a Linotype than this Exhibit No.
Well, it would be a monotype or a linotype or a Ludlow.
That looks more like a typewriter than it does off a Linotype machine.
Now on a Linotype those on the right can be flushed.
All the stories, articles and lessons had been given to Uncle Ben before the tenth of the month and he had sent back the linotype by the thirteenth as he promised he would.
When the linotype work is completed the printer places the lines of type on a 'galley.
Now that a linotype operator had been hired to set type, they had a little more free time.
Bill Carlyle was one of her father's best linotype operators.
True, but you can't recruit pressmen orlinotype operators from Riverview High.
Long after the other young people had left, she remained, trying to master the intricacies of the linotype machine.
Penny's gaze roved over long rows of linotype machines and steel trucks which were used to hold page forms.
After singing until 11 or 12 o'clock, and abusing Mr. Winslow in language that the linotype is wholly unable to reproduce, the crowd dispersed.
Adopting the policy that only journeymen printers must operate the linotype machines, the union was able to meet the situation.
The method of spacing which was a later development of the linotype is also very ingenious.
By the linotype and monotype machines type can be set in a "galley," a narrow tray about two feet long, with ledges on three sides.
This machine is called a linotype because it casts a whole line of type at a time.
The afternoon was melting in a soft May twilight when Tom snapped the switch on the Linotype and came into the editorial office.
The week's supply of print paper was ruined and the two rooms blackened by smoke and splattered with the chemical used to check the flames, but the press and Linotype were undamaged.
I've got some more copy to set on the Linotype and you write your last minute stories.
Then there are a couple of jobs of letterheads I'll have to get out of the way and by the time I get them printed the metal in the Linotype will be hot and I can set up Helen's editorials and whatever other copy she got ready this morning.
The Linotype seemed to be watching her in a very superior but friendly manner and even the old press was polished and cleaned as never before.
I want to run the Linotype every afternoon and you'll have to have copy for me.
Tom rose from his chair before the Linotype keyboard and came into the editorial office.
You can put them on the hook on your Linotype and I'll bring the others out as soon as I write them.
It is now a well-equipped office, has a Mergenthaler Linotype machine, and all the accessories of a good country newspaper.
Here are fast presses, three Mergenthaler Linotype machines and all the necessary accouterments to enable the management to issue one of the best daily newspapers in this country, outside of the larger cities.
The linotype and monotype machines, uncanny in their operations, have also come into common practice.
It is as if a modern linotype slug were put in the form up-side-down.
In substantiation of his theory he exhibits a specimen of a word cast as a unit for him by this process, roughly similar to a modern linotype slug.
Maybe he could get one of thelinotype men to teach Alex, but that did not seem probable.
The usual rumble and clatter came from the pressroom, but here the linotype men had all gone home, and there was no one except Dummy over there in the corner.
Alex is wild to learn to run a linotype machine, and there are no schools in Plainfield.
Well,” he went on, “do you know where I could go to school to study running a linotype machine?
There’s no reason why a fourteen-year-old boy shouldn’t learn to run a linotypemachine if he wants to!
I’m going to get out on parole soon, for good behavior, and I just gotta know if I can go somewhere and learn the linotype trade.
It had been written off by one machine, she was sure—for only the long stories were split up by pages and handed around in order to keep all the linotype men busy.
Newspapers are notoriously untidy places; still, Joan was surprised to find the set-up type here, for the type was always melted down in a little furnace and reused in the linotype machines.
The head pressman, the linotype men who often printed her name in little slim lines of lead for her when they weren’t busy.
Joan followed Chub “out back” into the composing room where the linotypemachines were all silent now.
Dummy was there, directing things from his stool, above the tinkle of the linotype machines.
The introduction of the linotype and other modern machines into printing offices has without doubt many times reduced and displaced manual labour, and caused at those times at least temporary suffering among employees.
The Linotype (a line of type) was pronounced by the London Engineering "as the most remarkable machine of this century.
He looked curiously at the presses and linotype machines.
The linotype machine fascinated him, and he begged Bill Arnold to let him learn how to operate it.
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