How the Linotype Was Exported to Colonial Australia - video

[Dave Hughes]

Doug Wilson's presentation to the ATypI 24 in Brisbane.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ2G25LCjfQ

I don't say this lightly: the Linotype typesetting machine revolutionized the world by speeding up the production of newspapers, books, magazines while increasing literacy everywhere it was introduced. But how exactly did this machine—invented by a German immigrant in the United States and exported to the United Kingdom—make its way across the Pacific Ocean to Australia?

This talk will dig into the history of who, when, and where the first Linotypes came to Australia, what impact it made, the fight for independent newspapers during colonial control, and the history of the First Australian peoples' press.
Transcript

[Mechanic]

An interesting presentation.

I wish I had known Doug Wilson was a guest speaker. I would have loved to have met him personally.

I was in contact with him when he was creating "Linotype: The Film,"

[Tim Clement]

I used to be a Linotype operator. Recently I came across a print shop here in Tennessee, run by old order Mennonites, and there is a printshop AND a Linotype powered by a water turbine driving a series of overhead belts and then directed to all the printing presses and the Linotype. Amazing.