Ottmar Mergenthaler The Man and His Machine A Biographical Appreciation of the Inventor on His Centennial
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Author: Basil Bahan
Introduction by Carl Schlesinger
Publisher/Date: Oak Knoll Press, 1999
Format/Condition: New hardcover book with dust jacket is in fine condition. 244 pages, measures 7 ΒΌ x 10 inches.
Description: After a wide ranging career, Kahan took early retirement to pursue his lifelong interest in the printing trade. He found many conflicting reports about the German immigrant to the US Mergenthaler (1845-99) and his invention of an automatic typesetting machine that later became the Linotype, and decided to set the record straight with a biographical appreciation. He particularly narrates the conflicts with the typographers’ unions and with his financial backers.
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