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 ...
City officials unearthed a piece of history Monday when they discovered an old 1,100-pound Linotype machine in the vacant Higginbotham Printing building that was being demolished by city crews. Like ...
A NEW GENERATION OF USERS? >> MAYBE IT IS THE NOSTALGIA FOR SS TO THOFE THE PAST NOW TURNED MORE CRAFT. OR SOMETHING AS SIMPLE AS THE CLICKETY CLICKF O CREATIVITY COMING TO LIFE. TOM HANKS BOASTS A ...
The journalist’s art is now one of the computer keyboard and the internet connection, but there was a time when it involved sleepless nights over a manual typewriter followed by time spent reviewing ...
Margaret E. Steuer (1874-1952) cracked the male stronghold of The Berkshire Eagle’s composition department in 1891 when she sat to set type by hand. The newspaper then was an eight-page weekly. Three ...
The linotype operator's companion [microform] : a treatise on how to operate and care for the linotype machine : also contains a list of patents issued on type-setting, distributing and matrix-making ...
BLUFORD, Ill. (AP) -- Before his retirement, Dean Nayes of Bluford crisscrossed the nation as a Linotype operator. During his career, he was employed by more than 80 newspapers, ranging from The Hill ...
When Jessie Winters moved to Las Cruces with her family in the 1960s, she would set aside her nomadic life and establish a home for the rest of her 100 years. Winters celebrated 10 decades on June 27 ...
Special to The New York Times. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print ...
Results that may be inaccessible to you are currently showing.
Hide inaccessible results