{"id":49754,"date":"2024-10-21T09:47:41","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T08:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/?page_id=49754"},"modified":"2024-10-21T09:53:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T08:53:06","slug":"early-typesetting-machines-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/early-typesetting-machines\/early-typesetting-machines-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Typesetting Machines 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The illustrations on this page are from the <a href=\"https:\/\/visit.bad-mergentheim.de\/de\/kultur-schloss-genuss\/ottmar-mergenthaler-museum\/\">Ottmar Mergenthaler Museum<\/a>,\u00a0 digitised by <a href=\"https:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/linotypebook\/albums\/72177720320589801\/\">Doug Wilson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about how Doug came across these images on the Metal Type forum here: <a href=\"https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/forum\/index.php?msg=10064\">Linotype: The Book<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/images\/content\/2ndband2.webp\" alt=\"2nd Band Machine\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1988\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mergenthaler&#8217;s Second Band Machine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/images\/content\/2ndband.webp\" alt=\"2nd Band Machine\" width=\"1200\" height=\"2108\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mergenthaler&#8217;s Second Band Machine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/images\/content\/blow1.webp\" alt=\"Linotype Blower\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1237\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Linotype &#8220;Blower&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/images\/content\/linotype1.webp\" alt=\"Early Linotype Machine\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1042\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Early Linotype Machine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/images\/content\/kastenbein2.webp\" alt=\"Kastenbein Typesetter\" width=\"1200\" height=\"815\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kastenbein Typesetter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/images\/content\/kastenbein.webp\" alt=\"Kastenbein Typesetter\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1673\" \/><figcaption 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height=\"1627\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Pianotype<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1075px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/images\/content\/pianotype1.webp\" alt=\"The Pianotype\" width=\"1075\" height=\"1546\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Pianotype<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/images\/content\/thorne.webp\" alt=\"Thorne Typesetting Machine\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1541\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thorne Typesetting Machine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/images\/content\/thorne2.webp\" alt=\"Thorne Typesetting Machine\" 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