| Show THE MECHANICS OF PRINTING line of type The resulting machine had two major flaws the frail papier mache lacked durability and hand-pouring the metal was extremely slow Like all complicated inventions Mergenthaler required tedious and repeated refinements By 84 hefoundway to literally pump hot metal frompot Then Lynn Benton type-founder from Milwaukee conceivedprocess for producing brass matrices onmass scale and the problem of the flimsy papier mache was overcome By findingway to bring matrix and molten lead together to form lines -and then redistribute the matrices to be used again Ottmar clearedmajor hurdle and in 1886 his typesetter nicknamed The AN EXCELLENT PHOTOGRAPH of an unidentified Price Sun-Advocate staff member operating Mr Mergenthalergem the Linotype What did these typesetters fear most Squirts -molten lead spurting from the pot onto feet that couldnbe moved quickly enough to avoid the fiery bath 213 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
