- Linotype (alloy)
Linotype or
eutectic alloy is a broad name applied to five categories oflead alloy s used in manufacture of type, each with three to five sub-classifications.
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Linotype (alloy)
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linotype — linotyper, linotypist, n. /luy neuh tuyp /, v., linotyped, linotyping. Print. to typeset on a Linotype machine. [see LINOTYPE] * * * Trademark name for a typesetting machine by which characters are cast in type metal as a complete line, rather… … Universalium
Linotype — /luy neuh tuyp / Trademark. a brand of typesetting machine that casts solid lines of type from brass dies, or matrices, selected automatically by actuating a keyboard. * * * Trademark name for a typesetting machine by which characters are cast in … Universalium
Mergenthaler Linotype Company — An 1896 Mergenthaler Linotype stock certificate The Mergenthaler Linotype Company is a corporation founded in the United States in 1886 to market the linecaster invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler. With the company s primary product, the Linotype… … Wikipedia
Type metal — The term type metal (sometimes called hot metal ) represents a range of metal alloys that are used in traditional typefounding and mechanical typesetting. History Although the knowledge of casting soft metals in moulds was well established before … Wikipedia
printing — /prin ting/, n. 1. the art, process, or business of producing books, newspapers, etc., by impression from movable types, plates, etc. 2. the act of a person or thing that prints. 3. words, symbols, etc., in printed form. 4. printed material. 5.… … Universalium
Hot metal typesetting — Part of a series on the History of printing Woodblock p … Wikipedia
technology, history of — Introduction the development over time of systematic techniques for making and doing things. The term technology, a combination of the Greek technē, “art, craft,” with logos, “word, speech,” meant in Greece a discourse on the arts, both… … Universalium
Mergenthaler, Ottmar — born May 11, 1854, Hachtel, Württemberg died Oct. 28, 1899, Baltimore, Md., U.S. German U.S. inventor. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1872. While working in a Baltimore machine shop he began experimenting with type molds, and in 1884 he patented… … Universalium
