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 demolished by city crews on Moore ...

Michael Babcock flexes his fingers like a concert pianist as he slides in front of a clanking, sliding, synchronized conglomeration of mechanical arms and legs protruding from a hulking, 2-ton machine ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The journalist’s art is now one of the computer keyboard and the internet connection, but there was a time when it involved sleepless nights over a manual typewriter followed by time spent reviewing ...

The journalist’s art is now one of the computer keyboard and the internet connection, but there was a time when it involved sleepless nights over a manual typewriter followed by time spent reviewing ...

“We probably use Helvetica every day and I dedicated the book to the person who was responsible for taking a Swiss typeface and making it a household word.” —Frank Romano, author Frank Romano got the ...

In a huge undertaking Urban Cottage Industries restored what is now the UK’s largest working linotype operation, and found the people who know how to work it. Featured stories are for members only.

Sitting behind a keyboard from the age of 15, Stewart Macdonald had to take great caution, or risk getting burnt. There are few people left who can say they have worked on a linotype machine, however ...