We have a fascinating old machine that needs a new home. We have been cleaning up in preparation for our return to work in our offices, and we no longer have room for a piece of newspaper history that ...

Clephane's history of the linotype -- Linotype's early years : great expectations and unforeseen betrayals -- Mackey's 1936 history of the Linotype Company -- Mergenthaler's linotype machines, ...

The old type-setting machine I wrote about a few weeks ago drew more comments than I ever would have imagined. After all, the Linotype machine, manufactured by the Mergenthaler Linotype Co. of New ...

American inventor Thomas Edison described the linotype machine as the eighth wonder of the world when it was introduced in 1886. The technology revolutionised typesetting to make printing more ...

City officials unearthed a piece of history Monday when they discovered an old 1,100-pound Linotype machine in the vacant Higginbotham Printing building that was being demolished by city crews. Like ...

Around for a century, Linotype machines were made obsolete in the 1970s by changing technologies -- but they have not been forgotten To embark on Linotype was to embark on greatness. Linotype machines ...

“We probably use Helvetica every day and I dedicated the book to the person who was responsible for taking a Swiss typeface and making it a household word.” —Frank Romano, author Frank Romano got the ...