1 gen 1800 anni - Advances in Typesetting

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The 19th century saw many advances in typesetting, which had remained largely unchanged from its early iterations. The earliest of these was the stereotype, a solid plate of metal created by making a cast of a typeset forme (Galbraith, 2020). In 1886, Ottmar Mergenthaler invented the Linotype, a typesetting machine which could produce entire lines of type based upon keyboard entries. The Monotype, patented in 1887, similarly used a keyboard, but produced individual pieces of type which it automatically set into a galley (Galbraith, 2020). All of these inventions further expedited the printing process by eliminating the time-consuming task of setting type letter-by-letter, allowing for even more, even faster production of printed materials.

About this image: This image is taken from the 1917 report “Hygiene of the Printing Trades,” from the Industrial Accidents and Hygiene series which was published in the Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. The report outlines the various hazards of the early 20th-century printing industry, including the danger of lead and other heavy metal poisoning from Linotype and Monotype casting. Despite this, the text itself was almost certainly set using a Linotype or Monotype machine- their use had been adopted by the Government Printing Office in Washington D.C. about a decade prior (Harrison, 2010).

SOURCES
Galbraith, S. K. (2020). A Brief History of the Book: From Tablet to Tablet. Libraries Unlimited.
Harrison, J. L. (2010). 100 GPO Years 1861-1961: A History of United States Public Printing (Sesquicentennial Edition). United States of America Government Printing Office. https://www.gpo.gov/docs/default-source/history-pdf-files/gpo_100years.pdf?sfvrsn=2

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