Jun 30
Typesetting Races
On July 3, 1886, Whitelaw Reid organized the first public demonstration of a mechanical typesetting machine, the Linotype, a machine that would revolutionise the world of printing. Hitherto, compositors had set texts by hand, combining accuracy with speed. The unit by which the speed of a compositor was measured with an em, a term which originated from the traditional width of the capital letter…
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