Kusko Times Gets Into
Big Linotype Procession
The Kusko Times is in line—it has
joined the big Linotype procession of
ttftey thhousand strong.
The new machine, which arrived on
one of the last trips of the Sea Wolf,
i* now installed in The Times office,
*nd is in perfect working order.
Time was when printers of olden:
days, before the advent of the Lino
type, gathered aboout large round
tables, with foaming schooners of
Cincinnati “suds” before them, and
gloried in the fact that brains could
never be put into a typesetting ma
chine. This machine, however, comes
eiouef to having “them.” What a won
derful change in the printing busi
ness has been wrought in this old
world since those days—due mostly
t® Mergenthaler’s great invention,
eredited by Thomas A. Edison as "the
eighth wonder of the world.”
The Times herewith extends invita
tion to all its friends, patrons and
readers to visit its Linotype depart
ment and view the working of the
new machine.
I>uring installation and assembling
»f the new machine A1 Goslaw, a
•most efficient mechanic, one who
««ni to know how to do many
things and how to do them right, has
rendered valuable assistance, and to
that gentleman The Times man
'wishes to render thanks and grateful
•acknowledgment.
The accompanying illustration will
■give our readers some idea of the
marvelous mechanism of the Lino
type, which is a machine on which are
assembled matrices (or molds) and
lines of type cast—lines such as you
*r« how reading.
The Linotype was invented in 1886
5>y Ottmar Mergenthaler, and the first
Linotype to be used commercially
Was installed in the composing room
•of the New York Tribune in July of
that year.
The Linotype, which is a compos
ing machine equipped with one or
more inclined receptacles called mag
azines, which contain the matrices of
ons or more fonts in use, aud with a
spaceband box which contains the
•pacebands, or extending steel spac
ers, is based on the idea of estab
lishing the entire line as a unit in
place of the single type character es
tablished by Guttenberg. The entire
line, or Linotype slug, is formed by
bringing together such matrices and
■pacebands as are required for a
line and then maintaining the as
sembled elements in casing position
while the molten metal is pumped
into a mold and against the face of
the assembled line. The machine
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then completes n revolution, and the I
Linotype slug is pushed out ready
for printing. Fifty or more slugs can
be lifted by hand at one time and the
slugs can be moved about from place
to place without danger of “pi-ing.”
Individual characters cannot fal out
nor can they work up in a form on
the press. And when the slugs have
been cast once, they can be returned j
to the melting pot.
The Linotype spaceband is com- j
posed of steel and consists of two
parts—teh slide and the band. The
slide, which is shaped somewhat like
a Linotype matrix, is graduated in
thickness along its outer edges, from i
bottom to top, the top being consid
erably thicker than the bottom. The
band, which is a longer skeletonized
device, is graduated in thickness from
top to bottom, the bottom being con
siderably thicker than the top. Thus,
the two main parts of the spaceband,
when properly meshed, are of the na
ture of co-operating wedges the outer
edges of which remain in agreement
regardless of the extent to which the
band is raised.
If the average yearly output of the
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nearly fifty thousand Linotypes now
in use were placed in line, the line
would extend around the sun and
back to the earth again, or it would
reach to the moon and back more
than two hundred times. If the
machines were placed side by side
they would cover more than thirty
three miles of space. Together they
could make it possible -to produce
four thousand books in one day.
Linotype “Eighth Wonder .of the
World.*’
Herman C. Mergenthaler, the son
of Ottmar Mergcnthaler ,inventor of
the Mergcnthaler typesetting ma
chine, is quoted in a speech before
the advertising staff of the New York j
Times as follows:
Ottmar Mergenthaler was born in 1
Hachtel, a small hamlet in the
kingdom of Wurtemberg, on May 11,
1845. His father, Johann George
Mergenthaler, was a teacher in the
public schools.
Instead of becoming u teacher, the
boy Mergenthaler accepted an ap
prenticcship under the brother of his I
stepmother, a Mr. Hahl, who was a.'
watch and clock maker. In May, 18t'S,j
he began his apprenticeship and ap
plied himself to mastering’ the trade,
and shortly afterward was given the
task of keeping in repair the rebel
lious village clock. There now oper
ates a Linotype where the inventor
worked as apprentice.
After Mr. Mergenthaler’s appren
ticeship expired, in the fall of 1872,
he sought America, where a son of
his .mother, August Hahl, had a shop
for electrical appliances in Washing
ton, D. G. He landed in Baltimore,
Md., in October, 1872, at the age -Of
18, and went to Washingnton, drhere
he arrived .with a small, green wooden
trunk and $30 in paper money. He
was still aide to follow his calling
with his new connection, making elec
trical clocks and special devices for
use in the United States Signal Ser
vice.
Washington was at that time the
great center for all important inven
tions, and Mr. Mergenthaler came
into daily contact with them, and new
ideas furnished the topic of conversa
tion. And so his firm became an ex
perimental shop for new and untried
devices, and among others brought to
their attention was the one called a
writing machine.
The object of this machine *was to
produce in typewriting a print just
like that produced by or from
printer’s type, the idea being to avoid
the cost of sticking type and to mul
tiply the work so made by the litho
graphing process.
Mr. Mergenthaler remodeled this
machine with fair results, but it was
later abandoned, due to difficulty en
countered in lithographing. The sec
ond machine, known as the rotary
matrix machine, was unsuccessful,
only a few being made.
Mr. Mergenthaler changed'iris idea
again and bult what he called a band
machne, producng a matrx .far one
lne. These lnes were assembled sde
by side to form a stereotype matrix.
Pair results were obtained, but the
action was too slow. Then he built a
second band machine, but it was also
too slow for commercial use.
The present Linotype, referred to
by Thomas A. Edison as the “eighth
wonder of the world,’’ is a linecast
ing machine that makes possible the
composing of every form of printed
matter—books, magaznes, newspa
pers, letterheads, tickets, menus and
so forth from the simplest to the
most involved, at a high rate of speed
and in clear-cut faces, newly cast, for
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each occasion. And It casts an entire
line at one time.
The first commercially successful
Linotype was installed in -the New
York Tribue in July, 1886. . At the
end of 1924, 49,000 Linotypes were in
use in sixty-three dfferent countries,
producing correct composition in half
a hundred different languages. These
include Syrian, Greek, and even Chi
nese.
The Linotype has four principal di
visions.
A. The magazines which contain
the matrices.
.2. The keyboard and the related
parts.
2. The casting mechanism.
4. The dnistributng mechanism
When the Linotype was commer
cially introduced in 1886 it revolu
tionized printing and abolished at one :
stroke the troubles of individual mov- i
able type. It introduced the whole
line us a unit of composition, thus re
ducing the printer’s.labor taanaston
ishing degree.
It gave the art the vast economy of!
automatically and .instantly produc
ing by. a keyboard solid lines of com- j
posed and justified Jtyper to. be. used,
and then melted down to be used over ,
again in the machine.
However,, since, the first. Linotype
composed the first, machine, experi
mental and mechanical departments j
and inventors, who are life members
■of the Mergenthaler Linotype Com
pany organization, have never ceased
to work on the Linotype.
Everything that the world has
learned in more than thirty-eight,
years of machine composition is in
the Linotype. No problem is evaded.
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Ruby, passed away at Seattle a few
weeks ago, according to advices fe
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