Michael Babcock flexes his fingers like a concert pianist as he slides in front of a clanking, sliding, synchronized conglomeration of mechanical arms and legs protruding from a hulking, 2-ton machine ...

City officials unearthed a piece of history Monday when they discovered an old 1,100-pound Linotype machine in the vacant Higginbotham Printing building that was demolished by city crews on Moore ...

American inventor Thomas Edison described the linotype machine as the eighth wonder of the world when it was introduced in 1886. The technology revolutionised typesetting to make printing more ...

Around for a century, Linotype machines were made obsolete in the 1970s by changing technologies -- but they have not been forgotten To embark on Linotype was to embark on greatness. Linotype machines ...

In 1886, Ottmar Mergenthaler invented a machine that could create an entire line of type at once. It was called the linotype and it revolutionized... Long Before The Internet, The Linotype Sped Up The ...

The journalist’s art is now one of the computer keyboard and the internet connection, but there was a time when it involved sleepless nights over a manual typewriter followed by time spent reviewing ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. These records document primarily the history of typeface development at the Mergenthaler Linotype Company of Baltimore, Maryland. The company ...

“We probably use Helvetica every day and I dedicated the book to the person who was responsible for taking a Swiss typeface and making it a household word.” —Frank Romano, author Frank Romano got the ...

Steven Spielberg's film The Post is a forthright statement about the importance of journalism, with particular contemporary urgency, but its exciting portrayal of smoky 1970s newsrooms and the heat ...

The journalist’s art is now one of the computer keyboard and the internet connection, but there was a time when it involved sleepless nights over a manual typewriter followed by time spent reviewing ...