Typographical Printing-Surfaces: The Technology and Mechanism of their Production by Lucien Alphonse Legros & John Cameron Grant

Author:Lucien Alphonse Legros & John Cameron Grant
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: type; typefounding; typecasting; printing
Publisher: digital reprint by www.CircuitousRoot.com
Published: 1916-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

a perforated band of paper for controlling musical instruments, and ii first description, or title of patent, he includes " type-composing machinery." The invention does not, however, appear to have reached a practical form until it was utilized by Alexander Mackie in 1867 in the control of his automatic typesetting machine known in Manchester as the "pickpocket." The " Manchester Guardian" is stated to have been composed by the Mackie compositor, and the authors recently have had under their notice many large volumes of print produced with the aid of these machines.

The Kaslenbein composing machine, fig. 311, plate XXVII, invented prior to 1870, was brought into practical working form at " The Times " Printing Office, and, with some modifications there introduced, was used for composing almost the whole of " The Times " and many other publications printed in

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