Fascinating facts about Ottmar
Mergenthaler
inventor of
Linotype
in 1886. |
Ottmar Mergenthaler |
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AT A GLANCE:
Ottmar Mergenthaler's (1854 -1899) invention of the linotype composing
machine in 1886 is regarded as the greatest advance in printing since
the development of moveable type 400 years earlier. Source:
National Inventors Hall of Fame |
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