Research Catalog

Title

Ottmar Mergenthaler : the man and his machine : a biographical appreciation of the inventor on his centennial / Basil Kahan ; introduction by Carl Schlesinger.

Author

Kahan, Basil Charles

Publication

New Castle, Del. : Oak Knoll Press, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Schlesinger, Carl
• Oak Knoll Press publisher.

Description

xv, 244 p. : ill., ports.; 26 cm.

Summary

"This is the story of Ottmar Mergenthaler, the very complex man who invented the Linotype"--Book jacket blurb.

Subject

• Mergenthaler, Ottmar, 1854-1899
• 1800-1899
• Printers > United States > Biography
• Inventors > United States > Biography
• Linotype > History > 19th century

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A watchmaker turns inventor -- Bucking the trend -- Honing his skills -- The land of opportunity -- Opening the door to invention -- Mergenthaler as the driving force -- Portrait of an inventor -- The beginning of hot metal composition in newspapers -- Refining and redesigning -- The syndicate moves in -- In-fighting in the syndicate -- Breakthrough -- the prototype of the single matrix machine -- The Mergenthaler Printing Company -- The first Linotype is produced -- The first machine goes to work -- Large scale production and ensuing contention -- Slipping schedules and teething troubles -- Pressure to produce large numbers of Linotypes -- Concerns about production and management -- Reid's 1888 report and the start of strife -- Mergenthaler's resignation -- Production at Company factories after Mergenthaler resigned -- Mergenthaler on his own again -- Financing the new machine -- Stilson Hutchins and selling the manufacturing rights abroad -- Reid's 1889 report and resignation -- Opinion -- Hine takes over and Mergenthaler returns -- Mergenthaler reinstated -- The British Linotype Company and the American connection -- General progress and production at Baltimore and Brooklyn -- The Typograph and the start of litigation -- Financial considerations during Hine's term of office -- Dodge's rule and contention from other linecasters -- Developments in the Typograph case -- A short digression about justification -- The Monoline -- Confrontation with Dodge -- Mergenthaler and Clephane -- Mergenthaler -- The domestic picture.

ISBN

158456007X

LCCN

^^^99045557^

OCLC

• 42389548
• SCSB-11516262

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library