linotype

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• Ottmar Mergenthaler worked twenty years on the development of his linotype machine, and ten years thereafter in perfecting it.

• The Mergenthaler Linotype Company has paid out twenty millions of dollars in dividends in fourteen years.

• Adopting the policy that only journeymen printers must operate the linotype machines, the union was able to meet the situation.

• For Sam had installed a linotype, and Wilbur Cowan had patiently mastered its distracting intricacies.

• The Linotype, pronounced by London Engineering "the most wonderful machine of the century," was not the product of a day.