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Linotype

a machine, operated by finger keys, which automatically produces and assembles, ready for the press or stereotyping table, type metal bars, each bearing, properly justified, the type or stereotyping table, type metal bars, duces and assembles, ready for the press characters to print an entire line. The linotype is the invention of Ottmar Mergenthaler. Beginning in 1876, he per- linotype is the invention of Ottmar Merfected his device in 1886, the first newsfected his device in 1886, the first newsgreatly improved by means of spacing paper to use it being the New York facilities, etc., and is adapted for book "Tribune." The device has since been work as well as for newspapers. Its type does not set type. It produces a characters to be printed stand out after slug or line of metal upon which the blind. characters to be printed stand out after type does not set type. It produces a blind. the fashion of reading matter for the from linseed. Linseed oil consists of the glycerides of linoleic, palmitic, and stearic acids, about nine-tenths of the

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