The Linotype Machine | 1886 AD

Who is credited with the invention of the typewriter?
 Christopher Sholes
What is a "stenographer"?


Post an example of Shole's typewriter.


Why did Sholes send a prototype of his typewriter to Clephane?
Sholes sent a prototype to Clephane because Sholes knew that stenographers would be the ones using the typewriter.
After the typewriter began production, why did Clephane pursue another machine?
It still took to long to typeset and copy the words
Who spent a year redesigning Clephane's typesetting machine?
Ottmar Mergenthaler
What is meant by "typesetting"?














Post an example of Linotype Machine.


How does the Linotype Machine differ from the typewriter?
The linotype machine allowed type to be set mechanically, rather then by hand.
How did this machine change the newspaper industry?
























Post an example of a Linotype keyboard.

How did the keyboard of the Linotype Machine differ from keyboards that we use today?
They had a set of uppercase keys, a set of lower case keys and a set of small uppercase keys, digits and symbols.
Post an example of a Linotype slug.


What is a slug?
The assembled line of type is cast as a single piece, called a slug.
Post an example of a person operating a Linotype Machine.


Why is the Linotype Machine the greatest advanced in printing since movable type?

                                                         Because the linotype machine made things fast efficient.