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KAHAN, BASIL: Ottmar Mergenthaler. The Man and His Machine. LINOTYPE MACHINE, THE. - A biographical appreciation of the inventor on his centennial. Introduction by Carl Schlesinger. New Castle, Daleware, Oak Knoll Press, 2000. 4to. XV+(2)+244 p. Illustr. Orig. green cloth in dustwrapper. ¶ The book tells the story of Ottmar Mergenthaler, who revolutionized the printing and publishing industry with the invention of an automatic typesetting machine which became known as the Linotype machine. It made it possible to eliminate the laborious hand setting of lead types by letting one linotype operator do the work of a half dozen typographers. MERGENTHALER, OTTMAR DKK 375 NOK~ 398 SEK~ 470 EUR~ 50 USD~ 78 GBP~ 33 JPY~ 8.150 · ALD9077 · Aldus Antikvariat, Frederiksberg C (DK) ·

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