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Linotype machine

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The Linotype machine is a "line casting" machine used in printing sold by the Mergenthaler Linotype Company and related companies. [1]

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Antimony

Antimony is a chemical element with symbol Sb (from stibium) and atomic number 51.

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Composing stick

In letterpress printing and typesetting, a composing stick is a tool used to assemble pieces of metal type into words and lines, which are then transferred to a galley before being locked into a forme and printed.

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Em (typography)

An em is a unit in the field of typography, equal to the currently specified point size.

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Escapement

An escapement is a device in mechanical watches and clocks that transfers energy to the timekeeping element (the "impulse action") and allows the number of its oscillations to be counted (the "locking action").

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Etaoin shrdlu

Etaoin shrdlu is a nonsense phrase that sometimes appeared in print in the days of "hot type" publishing because of a custom of type-casting machine operators.

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Glyph

In typography, a glyph is an elemental symbol within an agreed set of symbols, intended to represent a readable character for the purposes of writing.

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Hot metal typesetting

In printing and typography, hot metal typesetting (also called mechanical typesetting, hot lead typesetting, hot metal, and hot type) is a technology for typesetting text in letterpress printing.

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Lanston Monotype Company

Lanston Monotype Company was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the end of the nineteenth century by Tolbert Lanston.

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Lead

Lead is a chemical element with symbol Pb (from the Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82.

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Line shaft

A line shaft is a power driven rotating shaft for power transmission that was used extensively from the Industrial Revolution until the early 20th century.

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Mergenthaler Linotype Company

The Mergenthaler Linotype Company is a corporation founded in the United States in 1886 to market the Linotype machine, a system to cast metal type in lines (linecaster) invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler.

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Monotype Imaging

Monotype Imaging Holdings, Inc. is a Delaware corporation based in Woburn, Massachusetts.

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Monotype System

The Monotype system is system for printing by hot-metal typesetting from a keyboard.

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Offset printing

Offset printing is a commonly used printing technique in which the inked image is transferred (or "offset") from a plate to a rubber blanket, then to the printing surface.

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Ottmar Mergenthaler

Ottmar Mergenthaler (May 11, 1854 – October 28, 1899) was a German-born inventor who has been called a second Gutenberg, as Mergenthaler invented the linotype machine, the first device that could easily and quickly set complete lines of type for use in printing presses.

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Phototypesetting

Phototypesetting is a method of setting type, rendered obsolete with the popularity of the personal computer and desktop publishing software, that uses a photographic process to generate columns of type on a scroll of photographic paper.

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Point (typography)

In typography, the point is the smallest unit of measure.

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Printing

Printing is a process for reproducing text and images using a master form or template.

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Shift key

The shift key is a modifier key on a keyboard, used to type capital letters and other alternate "upper" characters.

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Sort (typesetting)

In typesetting by hand compositing, a sort or type is a piece of type representing a particular letter or symbol, cast from a matrix mold and assembled with other sorts bearing additional letters into lines of type to make up a form from which a page is printed.

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The Saguache Crescent

The Saguache Crescent is a weekly newspaper published in Saguache, Colorado, notable for continuing to use linotype long after most newspapers have adopted more modern production methods.

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Tin

Tin is a chemical element with the symbol Sn (from stannum) and atomic number 50.

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Type metal

In printing, type metal (sometimes called hot metal) refers to the metal alloys used in traditional typefounding and hot metal typesetting.

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Typeface

In typography, a typeface (also known as font family) is a set of one or more fonts each composed of glyphs that share common design features.

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Typesetting

Typesetting is the composition of text by means of arranging physical typesDictionary.com Unabridged.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linotype_machine

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