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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. These records document primarily the history of typeface development at the Mergenthaler Linotype Company of Baltimore, Maryland. The company ...

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 ...