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oct 8, 1884 - Linotype Machine

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The Linotype machine was patented by Ottmat Mergenthaler in 1884. Characters are cast in type metal in a complete line, and so was used where lots of lines of straight text were needed.

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oct 8, 1884
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~ 141 years ago

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