Yesterday’s Technology . . . Today!
Robert Griffith sent in some scans of this 1920s advertising brochure for the Model 14 Linotype. It appears to have been produced by the Chicago office of Mergenthaler.
This Linotype may be equipped with one, two, or three full-size magazines which are interchangeable with those of all single- and multiple-magazine Linotypes using quick-change Model 5 magazines.
Many thanks to Jim Daggs, of Ackley Publishing Company, Ackley, Iowa for sending in these photographs.
The advertisement states: “Model 12 Linograph — The All Purpose Machine.
Many thanks to Jim Daggs, of Ackley Publishing Company Inc., Ackley, Iowa for sending in these illustrations.
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Many thanks to Jim Daggs, of Ackley Publishing Company Inc., Ackley, Iowa for sending in these illustrations.
The Story of the Linotype Blower (1889) – This article on the Metal Type forum takes an in-depth look at this remarkable but short-lived machine.
These illustrations and article come from a copy of “The Graphic” Illustrated Weekly Newspaper (Chicago) dated October 31, 1891.
There is a full report of this competition on the Metal Type Forum here: 1891 Typesetting Competition.
THIS MACHINE was advertised in the November 1944 edition of The British Printer.
The text of the advertisement is as follows: “Type! A Worry? It isn’t to printers who have a Nodis Rapid Caster.
I have scant details of the subject of this photograph.
It was offered for sale on eBay by a seller based in the USA.
Many thanks to the Provost News, Provost, Alberta, Canada, for allowing Metal Type to make use of this video.
https://youtu.be/s8-aYQFmCT0
Robert Griffith sent in this video of a Linotype Model 31.
The footage was shot in October 2005 at the Museum of Printing History, Houston, Texas, USA.
Thanks largely to John Nicholson of Hamilton, NZ, the Model K Elrod which had been in storage at the Taranaki Aviation Transport And Technology Museum (TATATM), New Plymouth, is now operational.
To the writer’s knowledge, the Model K had been in the lean-to store of the museum, on a heavy wooden plank base since its arrival at the museum and never used since de-commissioning at the donor’s premises (Taranaki Newspapers Ltd., New Plymouth) around 1985.