Yesterday’s Technology . . . Today!
TONY PRESTON sent in this photograph of a press, which he thinks was a Miehle, taken at the Government Printing Office, Perth, Western Australia in 1980.
Says Tony, “The damage is down to the machine minder leaving his quoin key on the bed of the machine, then pressing the start button.”
NICHOLAS KENNEDY of Trip Print Press, Toronto, Canada, sent in this short close-up film of his Little Giant #6 press in action.
Says Nicholas, “It is printing a monthly programme for a local venue.
Many thanks to Terry Foster for sending in this picture and article he found in a book called “Victorian Inventions.”
Recently, on 6th August 1882, Monsieur Abel Pifre, a French Engineer, demonstrated the solar engine invented by him at a meeting of the Union Francaise de la Jeunesse held at the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris.
METAL TYPE is the place for printers, typesetters and newspaper workers, who fondly remember those letterpress days, to come and reminisce.
The site originally concentrated on the ingenious Linotype mechanical typesetting machine invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler in 1884.